Theoretical Type

• Theoretical victimology is primarily driven by statistical data analysis and formulas to explain variation in victimization risk and to correlate different characteristics that cause victimization to occur. These kinds of theoretical models can also weight demographic factors.
  
  

Generalized Type

• Generalized victimology is defined as the study of all kinds of victims. Each type of victim study can then be broken down into other specific types of victimology such as those of criminal nature, self-victimization, technological types and victims of something natural such as a hurricane or tornado.
  
  

Penal Type

• Penal victimology focuses on the role that the victim plays relative to the social factors that lead to and continue to follow acts that are defined as criminal under applicable laws and legislation. Research in this type of victimology is primarily concerned with the victim's role in the crime and its associated criminal proceedings.
  
  

Critical Type

• Critical victimology is a recently emerged type of victimology focused on larger societal and social factors related to criminal victimization. Victimologists in this field are focused on social structure and context in its relation to victimization. It also includes studying those who are overlooked by the criminal justice system or overlooked by society as a whole.