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theories of victimization  

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  • The fields of criminology and criminal justice have focused, historically, on understanding criminal offending in comparison with criminal victimization. However, a variety of paradigm shifts, scientific advances, and social and political forces since the 1960s and 1970s provided a foundation from which theories of victimization emerged. [Source: Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention; Victimization, Theories of]

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