Victims of Crime
- Created by: ecotts
- Created on: 04-04-18 13:37
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- Victims of Crime
- Victims of crime are the customer of the CJS
- if they don't have confidence in the CJS then...
- Report levels will drop
- Victims will be unwilling to give evidence
- Offenders will go unpunished
- This has led to...
- National crime recording standards giving priority to victims account over polices view of the evidence
- A move towards restorative justice
- if they don't have confidence in the CJS then...
- Social Construction of Victimisation
- A large proportion of victimisation never comes to the attention of the CJS
- particularly domestic violence, sexual assaults, white collar and corporate crimes
- Some victims may not even know that they are actually a victim, or refuse to accept that they are victims
- This is because...
- They may blame themselves for provoking it
- Reject the label in order not to feel foolish or weak
- Victims may be denied victim status by others
- This is because...
- Ethnic minority women may be ***** or sexually assaulted for the shame their victimisation has brought on the family
- A large proportion of victimisation never comes to the attention of the CJS
- why are some social groups more likely to be the victims
- Positivist Approach
- Tierney
- Victim Proneness
- identities the characteristics of individuals or groups that make them more vulnerable to victimisation
- Victim Precipitation
- Suggests that victims are actively involved in, or to blame for their victimisations
- Victim Proneness
- Tierney
- Radical Approach
- Focuses on how wider issues including CJS produce victimisation
- social deprivation making weakest member of society likely to be victims
- Intimate crimes are an aspect of male power in a patricharal society
- Under-protection of ethnic minorities by a racist police force, influence the view ethnic minorities as perpetrators rather than victims
- Focuses on how wider issues including CJS produce victimisation
- Positivist Approach
- Victims of crime are the customer of the CJS
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