SUMMARY
Human Behavior and Victimology enabled me to know how human actions, feelings, and development affect crime and victimization. Knowing Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs taught me that human behavior is usually controlled by their desire for survival, safety, love, and personal growth. Emotion theories (James-Lange, Cannon-Bard, and Schachter's Two-Factor) helped me realize how emotions influence decisions and actions. I also discovered about chromosomal defects such as Turner, Klinefelter, and Rett Syndrome, which influence an individual's physical and mental growth. Freud's Psychoanalytic Theory and Psychosexual Development taught me about how the personality is shaped through childhood, whereas Erik Erikson's Stages of Development instructed me about how individuals develop and change during life. Piaget's Cognitive Development Theory introduced me to the development of thinking and reasoning from childhood to adulthood.
I also learned Criminal Psychology, and this opened my eyes to the mind of offenders and how and why crime occurs. Victimology taught me the lives of victims of crime and how they recover from the trauma. "The Mirror" and Leslie Morgan Steiner's presentation on domestic violence made me see why certain victims fail to leave abusive partners. This topic has taught me more about crime, human nature, and how essential it is to assist victims.