Antedating of "Victimology"

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THE SHOW OF VIOLENCE
by Fredric Wetham
Garden CIty, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc.
1949

Pg. 279 (Index):
Victimology, 259

Pg. 259:
The murder victim is the forgotten man. What with sensational discussions on the abnormal psychology of the murderer, we have failed to emphasize the unprotectedness of the victim and the complacency of the authorities. One cannot understand the psychology of the murderer if one does not understand the sociology of his victim. What we need is a science of victimology.


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Subject: Antedating of "Victimology"


victimology (OED 1958)

1950 _Federal Probation_ XIV. 58  We need, says the author, a science of
victimology.

[NOTE: This refers to Fredric Wertham, _The Show of Violence_ (1949),
which may well contain an earlier usage of this word.]


Fred Shapiro


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