Antedating of "Victimology"

[Fred Shapiro]

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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