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This 8 page paper provides an overview of the role of women in Victorian Britian. This paper considers their different roles and the impact of socioeconomic conditions. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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the late 1960s. Though advocates like Margery Fry worked to develop the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and other victims organizations in the early 1950s, the establishment of the National
Victims Association and the National Association of Victim Support Schemes did not come into affect until well into the 1960s (Rock, 1991). In understanding the progression of victim
support in Britain, it is necessary to consider the nature of victimology, the social theories that have supported the call for victim support programs, and the progression of social support
services and training for support personnel that have come into play as a part of the criminal justice response. These factors provide a basis for understanding the conceptual and
practical applications of victim support. Victimology and Criminology Victimology, or the study of victimization, has been closely linked to criminology for centuries, but social
theorists have focused on victimology as a separate sociological area since the 1970s (van Dijk, 2002). Victimology, as institutionalized by the World Society of Victimology, may be
defined as : the scientific study of the extent, nature and causes of criminal victimization, its consequences for the persons involved and the reactions thereto by society, in particular the
police and the criminal justice system as well as voluntary workers and professional helpers (van Dijk, 2002). Prior to 1970, victims were assessed as participants in the criminal
process, and were classified in terms of their overall involvement in the criminal act (van Dijk, 2002). "In 1947, Mendelsohn presented a paper in French at a congress in
Bucharest in which he coined the term victimology...Like Von Hentig he drew attention to the part played by victims in precipitating crimes of violence, for example through provocation. For Mendelsohn,
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