linky: https://www.shsu.edu/academics/victim-st...about.html

Quote:The Department of Victim Studies is the very first in the nation! In this department, students have the opportunity to work with faculty who are passionate about issues pertaining to victimization and care about sharing that interest and their knowledge with students. Students in both the undergraduate and graduate program will take courses that directly relate to victims. Students also have the opportunity to participate in research with faculty, become involved in the community through civic engagement projects in courses and participate in events through the student organization housed in the department, the Crime Victim Services Alliance (CVSA).

The university website lists potential "careers" for Victim Studies grads:

Victim Service Agency
Social Service Agency
Police Department/Law enforcement
Correctional Facility/Community Corrections
Child and Adult Protective Services
At-Risk Programs
Legal Advocacy
Nonprofit organizations
Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!


Now we needs to get our wokea$$es in gear and get us one of them Dpeartment of Victim Studiieees together and Chaired (tenured, of course!) with curriculum that says that all the little matriculating Lefties are Victims and need to KNOW it and well, even though Greta says the Earth is ending this year, we just can't let it go without awarding EMERGENCY Diplomas in Victim Studies to every undergrad we can find, STAT!

As University of Houston – Downtown, Prof. Adam Ellwanger wrote, “the school has brought an old joke about academia to life.” Critics have bashed academia for years by saying the Marxist ideology poisoning schools normalizes victimization. Ellwanger predicted that this Victim Studies idiocy will spread to other universities, too. Victim Studies is a “fake discipline” — which is exactly what makes it a perfect symbol of an America now divorced from reality. Well, "everyone knows" you can't trust a Coog! We'll show 'em!


We'll show Sam Houston they ain't got nothin' on Rice when it comes to being the absolute wokeity wokest wokeniks in Texas! C'mon, email the Admin now! Don't be a Victim...er, oh, wait...isn't that the thing we're supposed to be teaching and awarding "valuable" degrees in? It's all so confusing!.....

From the rest of the press release:

Quote: The Director of the Crime Victim's Institute (CVI) Dr. Mary Breaux is valued member of the Victim Studies Department. The research conducted and work that is done at the CVI is inherently tied to the Victim Studies Department. The CVI is contributing to the knowledge base of Texas and nationally with research about victimization, as well as enhancing the practices used by those in the field working with victims.

The Victim Studies faculty care about the area of Victimology and the students who are enrolled in our undergraduate and graduate program. In this department, the faculty are committed to giving students a great learning experience that they can take with them into the field to help victims. We see this department as different from others as we are completely focused on helping students understand the experience of the victim and those that work to assist victims. We have courses and opportunities for students to learn about victims of many different types of crimes as well as the ways in which students themselves can work within the system as a career. The partnership with local law enforcement and criminal justice agencies, rape crisis and domestic violence shelters, and innovative research being conducted will give students the ability to learn in new ways.

And from their main page:

Quote: The Department of Victim Studies within the College of Criminal Justice enables current and future victim service professionals the tools needed to restore survivors’ feelings of safety, choice and control.

How in the **** is it work to study how to best serve victims of crimes!?

Sam Houston St. has one is one of the nation’s top-rated criminology schools.

Victim studies seems a logical extension of the field of criminology.

As a degree program, it seems over-specialized, an example of what I argue is college education devolving into glorified trade school. I don’t see anything wrong with classes in victim’s studies as part of a criminology program, though.

As a surgeon I worked a lot with Victims of Violent Crime, a program to help trauma victims pay for their medical care after assaults, rape, gsw’s etc. Great program. Terribly underfunded. But you soon find out that helping to defray a violent crime victim’ medical bills is a tiny part of their life after the event.

The Sam Houston program seems like an effort to train people who are getting degrees in criminology and make them aware of programs to get victims back on their feet. Housing, maybe day care….lots of programs out there, but finding them is tricky. It’s something that law enforcement has been doing a lot of in Europe. For a while. It reduces the chances that these people will repeat as victims by trying to change the circumstances that might have contributed to it in the first place.