Current Issues in Victimology Research

Since the birth of the field of victimology in the late 1940s and early 1950s, research has focused on victim-offender relationships and victim culpability. It has only been in the last few decades, as the field of victimology continues to grow and with several national criminal justice organizations launching victimology sub-sections, that researchers have both studied the effects of crime upon the victim and analyzed the services provided to the crime victim. In Current Issues in Victimol...