outline and assess feminist exlanations of why women are victims of crime

outline and assess feminist exlanations of why women are victims of crime

• official statistics
• victimisation is an under-developed area
• victim surveys (BCS)
• dark figure
• malestream criminology
• focus on the offender
• left realists (Young)- sexual and domestic violence
• feminists
• vicarious identification
• sociological theorising (male sociologists…