as witness specialist or victim service providers are professionals within the criminal justice trained to offer support to crime victims in a compassionate and helpful manner. While the role of a victim advocate varies relative to the laws of a state, the roles could be summed into providing information provision, paperwork filing, crisis counseling, and court accompaniment. The role of a victim advocate may as well extend to contacting organizations such as social services and criminal justice that may provide information pertinent to a crime. The pertinent information provided may include; victim’s rights, victimization, crime prevention, criminal justice process, notification of inmates escape or release. Given that the… Continue Reading...
or illegal activities. One of the core components of victimology is understanding who and/or what are crime victims in light of situations that increases vulnerabilities to crime. The rise of victimology today's society is attributable to the increased vulnerabilities that certain individuals and/or groups face, which increases their likelihood of being targeted by criminals. Victim surveys have shown that some individuals and groups are at high risks of being targeted by criminals because of certain vulnerabilities. Some of these vulnerabilities that contribute to increased victimization include living in certain neighborhoods, social economic status, and ethnicity or race (McGraw-Hill Education, n.d.).
Vulnerabilities to crime differ across different… Continue Reading...
Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS). Finally, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) operates the United Nations Surveys on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (UN-CTS).
The UCR and the UN-CTS are similar in that they track reported crimes. Tracking reported crimes requires an established, clear definition of each crime. It also requires that all participating law enforcement agencies use the same definitions for those crimes and report instances of those crimes in the same way. Because law enforcement agencies have a large degree of discretion… Continue Reading...
to publish whatever they desire, while the other has crime victims who are largely private citizens wishing to remain unseen but shoved unwillingly into the press's glare. A hodgepodge of multiple-level court rulings and state and federal legislation illuminate the pendulum's direction over time (Steele, 2002).
(1) Strive to find accurate facts and report them in maximum possible detail
• Be constantly informed in order to be able to clearly and persuasively inform, involve, and educate society on major subjects.
• Maintain honesty, fairness, and courage when collecting, publishing, and inferring accurate facts.
• Give the unheard a chance… Continue Reading...