A critical analysis theoretical perspectives and approaches in victimology also compared to some of that developed in Criminology, trying to point out common roots. The analysis of positivist matrix and victimological functionalism as criminological mirrored counterpart is particularly original, never proposed before. It examines anyway the prominent victimological theories starting from routine activities to learned helplessness ones, trying to oulined eventual adaptation elments to african society.

Sociological Analisys of Restorative Justice as paradigm of victim-oriented justice

The paper examines the victim-oriented justice paradigms and models historically and actually emerging within politics in the criminal justice system field, confronting them with orientations in the "victimological movement" debate.

A critical discussion of concept of proneness and the connected theoretical development of routine activities and lifestyle model in Victimology through a confrontation with the criminological perspective.

Analisys of principal theoretical approach and development to crime from the perspective of victim as social actor