Victimisation
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- Created on: 11-05-16 11:18
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- Victimisation
- Characteristic
- Class
- Working class are more at risk.
- Gender
- Males are at greater risk than females.This is as they are aloud out more and are less cautious of whats going on around them
- Age
- Younger people between 18-24 are most at risk.
- Ethnicity
- Minority ethnic groups are most likely to be a victim.
- Those that have already been a victim are most likely to be a victim again.
- Class
- Positive victimology
- Miers: 3 features of positive victimology.
- There are factors which produce crime patterns.
- It focuses on interpersonal crimes of violence
- It aims to identify victims who have contributed to their own victimisation.
- Early positivists focussed on victim proneness, this is identifying the characteristics of victims and how there different to none victims.
- Hans van hentig (1948) identified 13 characteristics of victims. This includes lifestyle choices.
- Miers: 3 features of positive victimology.
- Critical victimology
- Critical victimology is based on conflict theories such as Marxism and feminism.
- Structural factors such as patriarchy and poverty are what causes those groups to be more at risk of victimisation.
- Critical victimology is based on conflict theories such as Marxism and feminism.
- Impact of victimisation
- Crime may have serious physical and emotional impacts on its victims.
- Crime may also create indirect victims such as witnesses, relatives and friends.
- Secondary victimisation: This is the idea that the victim is also victimised by the criminal justice system.
- Fear of victimisation: Crime may create a fear of becoming a victim. Some sociologists argue that this fear is irrational.
- Characteristic
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