SOCI 2450 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Herbert Annesley Packer, Kent Roach, Restorative Justice

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2450
• Professor: Darryl Davies

Document Summary

Victimology: the study of victims and their contributory role, if any, in the criminal event. Victim-proneness: the degree of an individual"s likelihood of victimization. Benjamin mendelsohn: typology based on degree of guilt that victim brought to criminal event: penal couple: a term that describes the relationship between victim and criminal. Also, the two individuals most involved with the criminal act- the offender and the cixtim: victimal- term to describe the criminal"s victim counterpart, victimity- signified the opposite of criminality. Thorsten sellin and marvin e. wolfgang: typology of victims based on victim-offender relationships: primary victimization: individual falls victim to crime, secondary victimization: impersonal agency (ex. Business) is victimized: tertiary victimization: government or public order is offended (ex. Regulatory violations: mutual victimization: participants in offence willingly involve themselves (ex. Prostitution, gambling, drug sales: no victimization: offences committed by youth that could not be committed by an adult (ex.