Description
In this reflection paper, you are to submit a three-page paper that addresses the following:
1. Imagine you are the victim of a crime; you may pick any crime covered in Chapter 4 (burglary, robbery, assault, sexual assault, and identity theft) Explain how it affects you and your family. Pay attention to tangible and intangible losses as well as physical and emotional trauma.
2. As a victim, how would your social and personal life change? What effects would this crime leave on you, both short-term and long-term?
3. Reflecting on the history of victim’s rights, which you covered in the first unit as well as this one, how has the change in victim’s rights throughout history provided you with the ability to get through and survive this crime? If you did not have these rights, how would it be different?
4. Imagine you are assigned a victim advocate. What would you want and need from him or her in order to assist you in navigating through the criminal justice system and returning to your life before the crime?
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Running head: VICTIMOLOGY
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Victimology: Sexual assault
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VICTIMOLOGY
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Victimology: Sexual assault
The criminal justice systems in the various jurisdictions of the world focus on the
arguably archaic perspective of justice that is confined to the punishment of the offenders. The
retributive angle adopted is very desirable, especially with respect to the deterrence intentions of
the system. Therefore, the same means that the system focuses more on the offenders in the
equation and therefore only engage the recipients of their actions for complaints as well as in
cases that they are required to be interrogated as witnesses. This way of doing things needs to
change, considering that a very vital group of individuals is left unattended, yet they need the
most attention in the wake of the atrocities. The victims of crime are a vulnerable group that need
to be given due attention so that the effects of the said atrocities do not turn out to ...
