CJ 224 Victimology and Advocacy (5 credits)

2. Identify sources of information to prevent, intervene/treat, advocate and respond to victims.

3. Evaluate and distinguish between criminal justice and restorative justice responses to victims.

4. Evaluate and distinguish between different types of treatment and advocacy for victims.

5. Participate in a victim’s advocacy agency.

6. Examine personal biases and beliefs concerning victimology and advocacy.

Degree Outcomes
Programs Outcome: Graduates will critically evaluate past, present and future discrimination and privilege of individuals, societies, groups and institutions.

Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.

Intercultural Engagement: Graduates demonstrate self-efficacy in intercultural engagement to advance equity, diversity, and inclusion through reflections and expressions of cultural humility, empathy, and social and civic engagement and action. Further, graduates examine how identities/positionalities such as races, social classes, genders, sexual orientations, disabilities, and cultures impact perceptions, actions, and the distribution of power and privilege in communities, systems, and institutions.

Global Citizenship: Graduates will be able to critically examine the relationship between self, community, and/or environments, and to evaluate and articulate potential impacts of choices, actions, and contributions for the creation of sustainable and equitable systems.

Lecture Contact Hours 50
Lab Contact Hours 0
Clinical Contact Hours 0
Total Contact Hours 50