Perspectives on Victimology
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- Created on: 04-04-18 14:00
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- Perspectives on Victimology
- Victim of Crime
- Persons who individually or collectively have suffered harm including..
- Physical or mental injury
- emotional suffering
- economic loss
- substantial impairment of their rights
- Persons who individually or collectively have suffered harm including..
- Positivists
- It is mainly concerned with...
- Affecting rates of victims
- A focus on violent crime
- A concern with how victims might contribute to making the crime happen
- Hoyle
- Identification of patterns of victims has been made possible through increasing victimisation surveys
- they identify victims who have not had their offender reported to the police
- they collect more detail about victims than recorded by the police
- It can produce data of the experience of crime and effects of those involved
- Identification of patterns of victims has been made possible through increasing victimisation surveys
- People become a victim because of their own characteristics
- Lea & Young
- Knowledge that victims play some part in the process that result in crime occurring
- Without victims, many crimes would not exist
- Lea & Young
- Criticisms
- It relies on data from victimisation surveys which may not be entirely reliable
- Some positivist victimology has tended to blame the victims when it was not even there fault
- it ignores many sociological factors as it only focusses on characteristics
- It is mainly concerned with...
- Critical/ Radical
- Walklate
- Critical victimologist question the whole category of 'the victim'
- The state play a crucial role in defining who is an who is not defined as a victim
- The state rarely define those who are killed by states themselves
- Tombs and Whyte
- Many people are victims of corporate crime, often without even realising
- more than 20,000 people in the uk are killed by air pollution
- corporates use their power to obscure their crime making sure the public don't see themselves as victims
- therefore victim studies are not very useful for understanding and explaining victimhood
- Many people are victims of corporate crime, often without even realising
- It suggests that victims should not just be seen as the unfortunate, but individuals which rights
- it concentrates on the harm down to relatively powerless groups whose rights are violated
- Walklate
- Evaluation
- Positivist criminology helps us to identify the extent of victimisation in different groups
- where as ...
- Critical criminology highlights the role of power as defining victims
- Victim of Crime
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