Essays on Victim

The term “victimology” first emerged from the work of Mendelsohn and supported by Von Hentig in the late 1940s. Mendelson and Von Hentig aimed to “understand the relationships between victims and offenders, and the victimization process itself” (Davies,2013). Victimology has had a significant impact on...

Older adults are part of the more vulnerable groups in our society. In every case where an older adult is living in a care home they are served by caregivers, where they are supposed to receive the intended treatment and care. However, cases of physical,...

Everyone has heard the commercials on T.V. that say, “One in six women have been raped or sexually assaulted in the United States.” But what are people really doing to prevent it from happening? How are the people connected to the victim handling the situation,...

“Only crimes could take place in the darkness punishments had to be done in the light” writes Terry Pratchet in his The Feet of Clay novel. When summarised the quote asks “Should information regarding punishments be publicised?”, which has received much contempt by people around...

The criminal justice system (CJS) is a medium through which society at large is protected from undesirable behaviour that may put the community at risk, hence it undeniably forms the foundation of any civilisation. In Australia, a large percentage of crimes are committed by young...

“Capital punishment is a fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is a wrong cure for poverty”. Henry Ford. According to the history, there have been several types of capital punishment, all of them with the function of killing people by the state...

For twenty-one years, The World of Children has advocated for children around the world who are at high risk at becoming a bullied victim. Through private and public funding vulnerable children have been elevated in spirits, educated and those children become effective future change makers...

The effects of forcing societal conformity and restraints upon an individual can truly be damaging. Sylvia Plath’s, The Bell Jar, tells the story of a nineteen-year-old females journey from sanity to madness. Throughout the novel the main protagonist, Esther Greenwood, is overcome by mental illness...

Some hear the term serial killer and it immediately sends chills down their spine, thinking of the worst people who have committed several murders over a span of time. “The serial murderer kills a number of people over a period of time, many times months...

Death penalty is the judgment that will legally affect or destroy the original life of a person (Prabhakar, 2013). This means that death penalty will bring a lot of different or changes to a person from many aspects of their life. The changes that occur...