Structural factors, e.g. patriarchy and poverty, place powerless groups such as women and the poor at greater risk of victimisation
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Through the criminal justice process...
the state applies the label of victim to some but withholds it from others; e.g. when police fail to press charges against a man for assaulting his wife, she is denied victim status
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Tombs and Whyte
show that employers' violations of the law leading to death or injury to workers are often explained away as the fault of 'accident prone' workers
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Through the criminal justice process...
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the state applies the label of victim to some but withholds it from others; e.g. when police fail to press charges against a man for assaulting his wife, she is denied victim status
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