Talk:Victimology/Archive 1

Merger proposal
Neither this article nor Victim of a crime are complete, and both have some distasteful, unencyclopedic terminology. I created the other article, and would like to merge it into this one. What do folks think? Bearian 14:35, 6 July 2007 (UTC)
 * It is done. Bearian 21:35, 19 July 2007 (UTC)

Quotations
This article is a total overkill of quotations. 93.139.91.10 (talk) 16:31, 27 April 2009 (UTC)

Too much emphasis on crime in this article
and not enough about victims of abuse and manipulation.--Penbat (talk) 21:02, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

Victimologist
I noticed a discussion which referenced this word and it got me curious about looking it up. I didn't find any article or a redirect for it, so I tried victimology and I DID find an article (this one) so I am wondering, if this is actually a REAL field, wouldn't experts on it be referred to as victomologists as one form of classification? Is this regulated? What -ology (field of study) is victimology a subset of? For example, an expert in endrocrinology is called an endocrinologist and calling them one certainly does not infer that they are ONLY an endocrinologist (many are also chemists or doctors) so I would like to know if anyone would be adverse to redirecting the term here? I've never heard it, but I think anyone who uses the word would be interested in knowing that it is (apparently, since it's got an article...) a real word? Tyciol (talk) 07:23, 16 July 2008 (UTC)
 * It would probably a type of criminologist, see criminology or criminal justice. Bearian (talk) 00:17, 17 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Cool, so a victimologist is a specialized criminologist I guess. Tyciol (talk) 14:32, 17 July 2008 (UTC)

Victimology is an independant science from criminology. See the world society of victimology website,worldsocietyofvictimology.org>. Recently, japan has delivered the firts full ph.D in Victimology  and Intervict in the Netherlnds will also have a completed doctorate in victimology by the end of march, 2010. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.174.2.38 (talk) 12:40, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Fundamental attribution error
I added some material and citations from that article to this one. Bearian (talk) 19:02, 12 July 2011 (UTC)

POV
If anyone still has an issue with the WP:POV of this article, can you please address the specific issues here and now? it's been tagged for four years without addressing. If nobody still thinks it's an issue, then I will remove the tag in another week. Bearian (talk) 22:43, 18 June 2013 (UTC)
 * Please note that one Debbie Downer was banned as a sockpuppet. Bearian (talk) 22:54, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

Statement with strange reference: past lives referenced to R.J. Wooger
From the article:"People may even blame the victim's faults in "past lives" to pursue justification for their bad outcome."[page needed]
 * Referenced to: Woogler, R.J. (1988). Other lives, other selves: A Jungian psychotherapist discovers past lives. New York: Bantam.

I found out that Woogler is a believer in karma and reincarnation, so it sounds strange to me that he wrote this.Or is this a free interpretation of Woogler's book by a contributor to Wikipedia? Andries (talk) 15:50, 2 January 2014 (UTC)

External links modified
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 * Added archive https://web.archive.org/20140115172345/http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/unpublished.pdf to http://www.aic.gov.au/publications/proceedings/27/unpublished.pdf

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Murder of Leigh Leigh
I do not feel this is adequate as a 'See Also' of victimology. I think it more proper as a specific example of victim blaming - it seems that is the main reason for it's inclusion here, not because the case made any specific contribution to the subject of victimology. I'm going to go ahead and make the move. If you feel I've made a mistake, please discuss. Interstellarsurfer (talk) 23:45, 4 February 2016 (UTC)