SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Bad Hindelang, Routine Activity Theory, Crisis Intervention

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1500
• Professor: Ryan Broll

Document Summary

Victimology is a subfield of criminology that focuses on the relationships between victims and perpetrators, and between victims and the criminal justice system: the focus is typically on the perpetrator, this offers the opposite perspective. Romanian defense lawyer benjamin mendelsohn is credited as the father of victimology (1930s: hans von hentig"s work is acknowledged as enhancing the field of victimology (late 1940s) 1 in 5 canadians believed that women may provoke their sexual assault by being drunk. 15% of canadians believe that women provoke sexual assault by flirting. 11% of canadians believe that women provoke sexual assault by wearing a skirt. Most research on fear of crime focuses on crime perpetrated by strangers, but this is problematic; when we take into account all of the crimes perpetrated by people they know, their fear turns out to be proportional. Routine activity theory (as discussed in unit one) motivated offender + suitable target.