Victim Awareness Education classes focus on altering the offenders’ thinking and beliefs about the human effects of criminal behavior and to assume responsibility for their behavior. Classes are designed to increase awareness on the emotional, psychological, and financial burdens their victims have suffered. Furthermore, the classes focus is to alter the offender’s thinking and beliefs about the consequences of crime and to move from thinking about crime indifferently to engaging feelings about the impact of crime. Classes are available to both male and female inmates.