Video and Multimedia
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Web Resources
This website describes how the FBI along with local Law Enforcement, used prostitution stings to help rescue juveniles who were really victims during the commission of a crime.
Early Warning Signs for Serial Killers
This website lists nine warning signs for serial killers, among them, having been a victim themselves as a child.
Victim-Offender Overlap in Gangs
This article written by three researchers contends that gang membership is a large risk factor in this victim-offender overlap. They claim that single acts of violence between gang members can often times lead to acts of retribution between gangs as a whole.
Video
Robert Agnew Interview on Strain Theory
In this short interview, Dr. Robert Agnew explains and discusses his Strain Theory.
Leslie Morgan Steiner gives a TED talk on IPV and victimization.
Interview with underage prostitution survivor
In this short interview, the victim describes her experiences and explains that people don’t always see her as a victim, but sometimes as an offender who should take responsibility for her choices.
Audio
Listen to Martina McBride’s song about domestic violence. The lyrics discuss the victim becoming the offender and vice versa.
This is an audio message from the FBI, stating that they are searching for underage victims of sextortion and encouraging them to come forward. This message lets them know that they are not offenders, but victims.
This is just one example of how the FBI reaches out to the public for help in unsolved homicide cases.