CCJS460

Introduces the practice of victim advocacy as a profession. Students will develop an understanding of the impact of crime on the victim, and how crime impacts the path of the victim through the criminal justice and other administrative processes. A special emphasis of the course will be on introducing the students to different contexts of victim advocacy, e.g. system-based, campus-based, military-based, and community-based, as well as special topics impacting the profession of victim advocacy, e.g. grief, death notification, child protection, violence intervention, and trauma therapy. Students will also develop an understanding about how race, gender, age, sexual orientation, and ethnicity impact the way in which victims are offered and receive advocacy in different systems.