Write a 1/2 to one page (150–275 words) response in which you answer the three questions that follow the case study below:

As a female correctional officer, you have been working at the same women’s prison for fifteen years. The inmates call you Marge and respect you as being firm yet fair. You have made some mistakes during your career, but no one has ever questioned your intentions or integrity. Like anyone working in prison, you have found some inmates you like more than others. However, it is rare for you to find an inmate with whom you cannot work with at all. In fact, you are dedicated to the point that you will often spend some of your own time participating with the female inmates in recreation, arts and crafts, and other cell-block activities.

There is one inmate you are particularly fond of. She is a young woman about nineteen years of age who is in on a drug offense. Lisa is a shy girl who comes from a broken home. She never had much of a family life; both of her parents had failed in previous marriages. Lisa’s drug problems had started in high school when she got mixed up with the wrong crowd. She had felt accepted by the drug crowd, and life seemed easier to cope with while on drugs. Lisa was beginning to use hard drugs when she got busted. Because she was with a friend who was selling large quantities of drugs, her bust resulted in a trial and a two-year sentence.

While in prison, Lisa has come to you on several occasions with personal problems. Being a first-time offender, she has found prison life tough to adjust to. You and she have become good friends in a mutually trusting relationship. On this particular day, however, your relationship is being tested.

Lisa has asked you to mail a personal letter to a close friend who lives in her hometown. Since her friend is not a member of her family or her lawyer, his name is not on the approved mailing list. She knows your mailing the setter would violate institutional policy but says it is very important to her that she contact her friend just this one time. You know that other correctional officers occasionally mail letters for inmates. You also realize that it would be relatively easy for you to mail this particular letter. Still, it is a violation of policy.

If you do not mail the letter, your relationship with Lisa will more than likely deteriorate. If you do mail the letter, you may suffer unanticipated consequences. The decision is going to be a difficult one, and you are going to have to make it. Answer the following:

1. Relationships of trust between inmates and correctional officers are not uncommon. How could such a small violation of prison policy create any problems?
2. What could the CO do to maintain the relationship and not violate the rules?
3. Is violating rules always an ethical transgression?

The focus of the Holistic Victim Restitution Plan is to critically analyze victimology through the application of information from sociology, law, psychology, ethics, and related fields to the study of victimology and to develop a holistic plan for victim restitution.

Consider the following questions when analyzing the 10 required scholarly sources:

• Who conducted the research or project?
• Who or what was the topic or focus of the research?
• What was done (if it was a data driven article)?
• How was it done (if it was a data driven article)?
• What were the findings or conclusions of the author?
• What were the contributions (findings that may have been made to new information on the topic area or applications)?

In creating your Holistic Victim Restitution Plan, you are required to

• Discuss the history of victimology, victimology theories, and varying approaches used to address the needs of crime victims.
• Explain who the stakeholders are in crime victimization.
• Describe the interrelationship of victimology to social justice and the operations of the criminal justice system, including, but not limited to: crime scene investigation techniques and security; the collection, preservation and presentation of evidence; and issues related to correctional institutions, incarceration, and release of offenders.
• Identify the socioeconomic (cultural) diversity and its relation to contemporary criminal and social justice and victimology.
• Detail the breakdown of possible strategies and interventions designed to address criminal victimization.
• Describe how techniques of addressing victimization impact the needs of crime victims.
• Predict how crime prevention and intervention strategies will be handled over at least the next two decades.
• Create a holistic plan for addressing victim restitution.

The Holistic Victim Restitution Plan

• Must be nine double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center (Links to an external site.).
• Must include a separate title page with the following:
  • Title of paper
  • Student’s name
  • Course name and number
  • Instructor’s name
  • Date submitted
• Must include a formal abstract.
• Must include section sub-headings.
• Must begin with an introductory paragraph that has a succinct thesis statement.
• Must include a discussion of the eight elements listed in the instructions above.
• Must end with a conclusion that reaffirms your thesis.
• Must use at least 10 scholarly sources in addition to the course text.
• Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.
• Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the Writing Center.

Daigle, L. E. (2017). Victimology: A text/reader (2nd ed.). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

• Section XIV: Contemporary Issues in Victimology: Victims of Hate Crimes, Human Trafficking, and Terrorism (pp. 570-589)

Davis, R. C., & Ullman, S. E. (2013). The key contributions of family, friends, and neighbors. In R. C. Davis, A. J. Lurigio, & S. Herman (Eds.), Victims of crime (pp. 233-250). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

• This is Chapter 10 in this primary course text.

Lurigio, A. J., Canada, K. E., & Epperson, M. W. (2013). Crime victimization and mental illness. In R. C. Davis, A. J. Lurigio, & S. Herman (Eds.), Victims of crime (pp. 211-230). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

• This is Chapter 9 in this primary course text.

Walts, K. K. (2013). Understanding child trafficking in the United States: A review of current policies, research, and issues facing survivors. In R. C. Davis, A. J. Lurigio, & S. Herman (Eds.), Victims of crime (pp. 469-490). Retrieved from https://content.ashford.edu/

• This is Chapter 20 in this primary course text.