As FIONA BROOKMAN notes, Wolfgang shows the importance of the victim-offender relationship and the fact that in many homocides, it is a matter of chance which party becomes the victim.
This approach identifies certain patterns of interpersonal victimisation, but ignores wider structural factors influencing victimisation, such as poverty and patriarchy.
It ignores situations where victims are unaware of their victimisation, as with some crimes against the environment, and where harm is done but no law broken.
It can easily tip over into victim blaming. E.g AMIR'S claim that one in five rapes are victim precipitated is not very different from saying that the victims 'asked for it'.
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