Universities are full of (generally) young people, many of whom have not previously critically examined their own thinking processes. Personally, I don't believe that my role as a professor is to be anyone's parent. But I do have a responsibility to educate and mentor students that extends into areas far outside of my course curriculum.  

Terminology... I don't see a large difference between "victimization estimates" and "a best guess of the number of people who have been the victims of crime," other than the word count. Then again, I've spent a decade immersed in criminology jargon.