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Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Identifying Patterns and Trends
Contemporary Issues in Identifying Patterns and Trends examines current topics in victimology and explores the main issues surrounding them. Key topics intimate partner violence and dating violence, rape and sexual assault on the college campus, Internet victimization, elder abuse, victimization of inmates, repeat and poly-victimization, fear of crime and perceived risk of crime, human trafficking, mass shootings, and child-to-parent violence. Each chapter includes information about the specific topic, including the nature of the issues, trends, current research, policy, current issues, and future challenges.
290 pages, Paperback
Published February 6, 2020
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August 22, 2025
No joke, one of a handful of textbooks I’ve read cover to cover. Some of the statistics covered in this are staggering and I’m concerned by the slow pace or total lack of policy change. This was largely focused on United States crime victimization surveys/statistics, but there is some discussion about marginalized populations and the exploitation of non-western nations. I was glad to see how many social programs have been established to help combat some of these issues though, showing the importance of community-based prevention.
Outside of the chapters on physically violent crimes like mass shootings (a majorly American issue), I found the chapter on cyber victimization to be the most relevant and interesting, especially because there is so little legislation on how to prevent issues like revenge porn, “deep fakes”, or unwanted sexual harassment over the internet. Because victimization doesn’t necessarily mean a crime has explicitly occurred, like in many cases of cyber victimization, I am curious to see how policies change moving forward. With the uptick in internet control laws of late, like required age verification, I am equally curious to see if these changes have any measurable effect on victimization rates.
Because there are numerous authors compiled into this text, I personally found some chapters more interesting and easy to read than others (3,4,7, 9, & 10). Nonetheless, every chapter addressed an important pressing issue in victimization prevention. I also appreciated how every chapter in some way focused on the mental health issues that arise post-victimization.
Outside of the chapters on physically violent crimes like mass shootings (a majorly American issue), I found the chapter on cyber victimization to be the most relevant and interesting, especially because there is so little legislation on how to prevent issues like revenge porn, “deep fakes”, or unwanted sexual harassment over the internet. Because victimization doesn’t necessarily mean a crime has explicitly occurred, like in many cases of cyber victimization, I am curious to see how policies change moving forward. With the uptick in internet control laws of late, like required age verification, I am equally curious to see if these changes have any measurable effect on victimization rates.
Because there are numerous authors compiled into this text, I personally found some chapters more interesting and easy to read than others (3,4,7, 9, & 10). Nonetheless, every chapter addressed an important pressing issue in victimization prevention. I also appreciated how every chapter in some way focused on the mental health issues that arise post-victimization.
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