Victim-Offender Relationships
Around seven o’clock on the morning
of December 4, 2004, seven year-old Dalton Corbin discovered his mother’s body.
Splayed across her bed with a gunshot wound to her skull, Jennifer Corbin had
died five hours earlier. Initial reports indicated the possibility of suicide,
but the discovery of an online relationship begun by Jennifer caught
detectives’ attention. A deeper investigation led them to Jennifer’s husband,
Barton Corbin (Van Sant, 2007).
Victim-offender relationships often
play a significant role in the commission of violent crimes. In 64.8% of U.S.
homicide cases between 1976 and 2005, the victim was killed by a familiar
person (Rennison, 2002). Among rape victims, 87.1% of women had preexisting
relationships with their attackers (Tjaden & Thoennes, 1998). The smallest
percentage of murder and rape victims met their fate in the hands of a
stranger.
For this Discussion, select a
high-profile murder case that occurred within the past ten years. Examine the
relationship between the victim and offender and consider how that relationship
may have influenced the murder.SELECT A HIGH PROFILE CASE THAT OCCURRED WITHIN THE PAST 10 YEARS
“Post by
Day 1 A brief
description of the murder case you selected. Then explain the relationship
between the victim and the offender. Finally, explain how the victim-offender
relationship may have influenced the murder.”
One and a half
page with at least two reference….
It
is important that you cover all the topics identified in the assignment.
Covering the topic does not mean mentioning the topic BUT presenting an
explanation from the readings.
To
get maximum points you need to follow the requirements listed for
this assignments 1) look at the page limits 2) review and follow APA rules
3) create SUBHEADINGS to identify the key sections you are presenting and
4) Free from typographical and sentence construction errors.
REMEMBER IN APA FORMAT JOURNAL TITLES
AND VOLUME NUMBERS ARE ITALICIZED.
Readings
Davis, R.
C., Lurigio, A. J., & Herman, S. (Eds.). (2013). Victims of crime
4th ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Chapter
16, “The Reoccurrence of Victimization: Terminology, Extent,
Characteristics, Correlates, and Prevention”
Card, N.
A., & Hodges, E. V. (2010). It takes two to fight in school, too: A
social relations model of the psychometric properties and relative
variance of dyadic aggression and victimization in middle school. Social
Development, 19(3), 447–469.
Gartner,
R., & MacMillan, R. (1995). The effect of victim-offender relationship
on reporting crimes of violence against women. Canadian Journal of
Criminology, 37(3), 393–429.
Heller,
M.S., Ehrlich, S. M., & Lester, D. (1983). Victim-offender
relationships and severity of victim injury. Journal of Social Psychology,
120(2), 229–234.
Woods, L.,
& Porter, L. (2008). Examining the relationship between sexual
offenders and their victims: Interpersonal differences between stranger
and non-stranger sexual offences. Journal of Sexual Aggression, 14(1),
61–75.
Media
Laureate
Education, Inc. (Executive Producer). (2012). Victim-offender relationships. Baltimore, MD:
Author.
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