Deconstructing the "Ideal Victim"

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Using a critical victimological approach, this course explores criminological and legal conceptions of victimization and victimhood alongside socio-political meanings of the victims' rights movement. Topics include media representations of victimization, harm reduction discourses, gender-based violence, environmental crime, and cybercrime in contemporary intersectional and carceral contexts. Prerequisite: 10.0 university credits.