Date: Wednesdays,
October: 11, 18, 25 - November: 1, 8, 15
(6 sessions)
Time: 8:00 - 9:00 PM (ET) / 7:00 - 8:00 PM (CT) / 6:00 - 7:00 PM (MT)
Facilitators: Dr. Edna Erez & Michael
and content expert guest speakers
This course explores the cycle from victim to survivor to offender and how to break the cycle. While crime victims do not always become offenders, most offenders have been victims.
This victimization can produce negative physical, mental, and behavioral outcomes; thus, understanding the cycle allows for interventions which may reduce risk and harm.
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Course Outlines:
Session 1: An introduction to victimology Session 6: Addictions - The Impact on Victims, Offenders, and Communities |
Course Objectives:
At the end of this course, you will become familiar with definitions of victims, victimization, and theories of victimization. We will employ them to address, explain, and disrupt the cycle of VSO.
Personal experiences, stories, and views of course participants are welcome and appreciated.
Session 1: Victims to Survivors to Offenders – An introduction to victimology
Objectives:
- Become familiar with definitions of ‘victim’ and ‘victimization’, and victimological theories explaining victimization.
- The overlap between victims and offenders.
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Life examples and experiences
Session 2: The cycle of victims/survivor/offenders
Objectives:
- Demographics and other social characteristics shaping the cycle.
- Intersections of social disadvantages in creating the cycle
- Responding to and preventing the cycle – legal, ethical., therapeutic issues and concerns
Session 3: Trauma, Families, and the Collateral Consequences of Crime – The Hidden Victims
Objectives:
- The impact of victimization on families and communities
- The impact of involvement in the criminal justice system on families
- Reflections on how to minimize or prevent secondary victimization.
Session 4: The Registry - The Impact on Victims, Offenders, and Communities
Objectives:
- The history, parameters, and goals of the S.O. Registry
- Arguments for and against the Registry — impact on individuals, families, and communities
Session 5: Policing, Courts, Prisons, and Reentry
Objectives:
- Labeling of offenders and its impact on reentry
- Retributive or restorative justice?
- Calls for abolition – your views? Suggestions for justice reforms?
Session 6: Addictions - The Impact on Victims, Offenders, and Communities
- Addictions and their impact on the VSO cycle
The Facilitators
Professor Edna Erez has a law degree (LL.B.) from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an MA in Criminology and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania.
She received over two million dollars in state and federal grants in the U.S. and overseas to study victims in the criminal justice system, the use of technology in criminal justice, and terrorism related topics.
Dr. Erez was a visiting professor or research fellow in universities and research centers in Australia, Germany, Poland, India, and Israel. Her publication record includes over 100 articles, book chapters and research reports.
She is past editor of Justice Quarterly and is currently Co- Editor of the International Review of Victimology, and Co-Chief Editor of Oxford’s International Criminology. She also serves on editorial boards of several scholarly journals in criminology/criminal justice and legal studies.
Her current research interests include victim participation in and input into justice proceedings, violence against women including migrant women and women in mixed relationships, and various aspects of terrorism.
Dr. Lara Segalite treats patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings, most of whom have an alcohol or other drug use disorder.
A majority of them also have a double diagnosis with mental illness, or even triple diagnosis when they have medical complications.
She teaches resident physicians in the field of psychiatry, and collaborates with nurse practitioners who she supervises in tandem with a physician when they treat patients.
She finds that her days go very fast and are exhilarating because her job is meaningful and very rewarding.
Marc S. Buslik grew up in one of Chicago's Northshore suburbs and is a retired commander from the Chicago Police Department. He teaches criminology at the University of Illinois Chicago and his research interests are in police accountability and community - police engagement. He was the president of the Police Captains Association and the longest serving president of the Shomrim Society of Illinois, an organization of Jewish first responders.
He works with the NYU Law School Policing Project on their Neighborhood Policing Initiative and Re-Imaging Public Safety efforts. He is a long-time consultant to the US Justice Department and has traveled to former Soviet republics to assist with their transition to democratic policing.