How do criminology and victimology differ and how are they similar?
What will be an ideal response?
Criminologists have concentrated a large portion of their work to analyzing criminal victimization and ways to prevent it. This has led some to argue that victimology is a subfield of criminology and not a discipline on its own. Irrespective of this debate, criminology and victimology are complementary areas of study. Where criminologists focus on studying criminal behavior, which includes the process of making laws, breaking laws, and reacting toward those breaking of laws, the focus for victimologists is the opposite. Victimologists are interested in understanding the impact of the victimization on victims and how best they can be restored to their previctimization state; victimologists, too, analyze how the criminal justice system accommodates and assists victims and how society, along with the media and the internet, react to criminal victimization and victims. Victimology, then, is the scientific study of victims, victimizations, and the social reaction to both of these.
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