SP22128: Victims and victimology
[Page last updated: 23 May 2025]
| Academic Year: | 2025/26 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Social & Policy Sciences |
| Credits: | 5 [equivalent to 10 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 100 |
| Level: | Intermediate (FHEQ level 5) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CWRI 60%, OT 40% |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
At the end of this unit, students will be able to:
- Critically reflect on multiple historical and theoretical perspectives on the emergence of victimology and victim as a object of study;
- Critically assess the empirical study of victims and victimisation and associated ethical challenges;
- Analyse empirical cases on different forms of criminal victimisation;
- Critically assess responses to victimisation, including criminal justice, policy and alternative justice mechanisms.
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| Synopsis: | Take an in-depth look at issues of victims and victimisation, and reflect and critically examine their meanings and implications.
You'll explore diverse theoretical perspectives on victimisation and gain practical insights into how these issues are (or should be) researched.
By assessing real-world case studies, you'll broaden your understanding of victims' experiences of crime, their journeys through the criminal justice system, and their ability to achieve justice. |
| Content: | Indicative content for this unit includes:
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| Skills: | By engaging with this unit, students will be able to develop and sharpen their critical thinking skills. The unit and associated tasks will provide them with opportunities to develop research skills (e.g., considering certain methodological approaches to the study of victims and victimisation) and communication skills (i.e. communicating and engaging with different audiences; considering how to share academic knowledge with non-academic audiences). |
| Aims: | The aims and objectives of this module are:
- To acquire a critical perspective of the emergence of interest in the victim as object of study, and consequent development of victimology as a field of study;
- To reflect critically on the empirical study of the victim and criminal victimisation;
- Critically reflect on the role (symbolic and real) and experiences of victims within the criminal justice system
- Critically reflect on criminal justice, policy and practice responses to different types of victims/victimisation.
- To understand and explore the meaning(s) of justice for victims of crime |
| Course availability: |
SP22128 is Optional on the following courses:Department of Social & Policy Sciences
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