CJA570

Christoffersen, M. N. (2019). Violent crime against children with disabilities: A nationwide prospective birth cohort-study. Child Abuse & Neglect, 98, 1 – 11.
In a study on children with disabilities, Christofferson (2019) examines the prevalence rates of violent victimization among a group that is vulnerable to victimization. In addition to discussing disability as a risk factor for victimization, they discuss other risk factors that interact with disability to increase victimization risk.

de Vries, B., van Busschbach, J. T., van der Stouwe, E. C. D., Aleman, A., van Dijk, J. J. M., Lysaker, P. H., Arends, J., Nijman, S. A., & Pijnenborg, G. H. M. (2019). Prevalence rate and risk factors of victimization in adult patients with a psychotic disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 45(1), 114–126.
Mental illness, including psychosis, is considered a significant risk factor for victimization. de Vries et al. (2019) identify the prevalence rates of violent victimization among those with psychosis as well as examining other risk factors that place this group of individuals at increased risk for victimization.

Fox, K. A. (2017). Gangs, gender, and violent victimization. Victims & Offenders, 12(1), 43–70. https://doi.org/10.1080/15564886.2014.989557
Fox (2017) discusses a study of victimization experiences among gang members. The study addresses two significant risk factors for violent victimization: criminal involvement and gender. In discussing the gang-victimization link, the study also provides one example of the offender-victim overlap.

McEwan, T. E., Daffern, M., MacKenzie, R. D., & Ogloff, J. R. P. (2017). Risk factors for stalking violence, persistence, and recurrence. Journal of Forensic Psychiatry & Psychology, 28(1), 38–56.
McEwan et al. (2017) review the risk factors that have been previously linked to stalking violence. They add to the literature by conducting a study that identifies factors that differentiate between stalking that leads to violent victimization and stalking that does not. They also touch on the importance of the victim-offender relationship.

Voogt, A., Klettke, B., & Thomson, D. (2017). The development of a conceptual model of perceived victim credibility in child sexual assault cases. Psychiatry, Psychology & Law, 24(5), 760–769.
This article discusses a proposed model of understanding victim credibility as it pertains to child sexual assault cases. As such, it represents one new direction in victimology theory as well as discussing an important concept, credibility, in work with victims.

Massachusetts School of Law at Andover. (2011). Battered Woman Syndrome: Defending domestic violence victim Lisa Grimshaw [Video file]. YouTube.
This 6-minute video discusses a controversial defense, Battered Woman Syndrome, from the perspective of an attorney, who supports the defense.

(2022). The difference between self-defense & gay panic: sneak peek ep.4
Associate professor of criminal justice, W. Carsten Andresen, breaks down the difference between a traditional self-defense case and “gay panic” cases.[Video file]. YouTube