The Victims of Crime
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- Created on: 07-06-13 16:51
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- The Victims of Crime
- Positivist Victimology
- focuses on interpersonal crimes of violence. seeks to identify patterns in victimisation and identify characteristics of victims
- Victim precipitation- may be the first to use violence
- Victim Proneness- the characteristics that make victims different and more vulnerable, .eg. female, elderly or low intelligence
- focuses on interpersonal crimes of violence. seeks to identify patterns in victimisation and identify characteristics of victims
- Critical Victimology
- Structural causes (patriarchy and poverty) place powerless groups vulnerable
- The police give victim status to some but not others
- Tombs and Whyte- when accidents happen at work it is the fault of the worker
- Patterns of Victimistaion
- Ethnicity- minority groups are at greater risk
- Age-the young are more vulnerable to assault and sexual harassment
- Repeat victimisation- 4% of the population are victims to 44% of crime
- Class- the poor are more likely to be victims
- The Impact of Victimisation
- Physical or emotional impact on the victim
- 'indirect victims'- witnesses and family and friends
- Secondary victimisation in the CJS
- Positivist Victimology
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