UNIVERSITY OF CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION AND POLICE STUDIES

THE SPECIALIST ACADEMIC STUDIES OF CRIMINALISTICS

Course:

Criminalistic Victimology

Course Code: D2I5

ECTS: 6

Course Status:

Elective

Number of Effective Classes (Per Week): 3 + 1

Theoretical Education:

Practical Training:

Research Study Project:

3

1

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Prerequisite/s: None

Educational Objective: Students gained more specific knowledge on victimology, victimization, crime victims, their needs, their position in criminal proceedings and most effective ways of victims’ protection from revictimization, as well as from secondary victimization by the law enforcement.

Projected Outcome: Students understand well victimological concepts and have advanced knowledge on primary and secondary victimization factors and processes. Students are able to adequately apply acquired victimological knowledge in practice.

Course Contents/Structure

Theoretical education: The notion, subject, goals and objectives of victimology and criminalistic victimology;History and development of victimology; International recognition of victims’ rights; The concept of a victim; Victimization (primary victimization, secondary victimization, and revictimization) and the risk of victimization; Victimogenic predisposition; Particularly vulnerable categories of victims; Consequences of victimization and victims’ needs; Measures for prevention of secondary victimization by police officers and other professionals; Victims’ assistance and support; First police contact with crime victims; Importance of multisectoral approach to victims’ protection; Techniques of interviewing of victims; Techniques of interviewing of different categories of particularly vulnerable victims - victims of sexual abuse, victims of family violence, human trafficking victims, child victims etc.

Practical training: Deepening and testing of acquired knowledge by discussing and analyzing concrete cases of primary and secondary victimization, as well as through discussions on optimal police practices in victimizationprevention, and protection of victims from revictimization and secondary victimization.

Teaching Methods: lecture, modified lecture, case studies.

Assessment (Maximum Number of Points: 100)

Pre-Exam Obligations

No. of Points

Final Examination

No. of Points

Active participation in classes

10

Oral examination

50

Term tests

40

 

 

Textbook/s

1. Biljana Simeunović-Patić, Tanja Kesić: Kriminalističkaviktimologija. Beograd: Kriminalističko-policijskaakademija, 2016.