Positivist victimology focuses on interpersonal crimes of violence. It seeks pattern victimisation and aims to identify the characteristics of victims that contribute to victimisation, e.g:
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Victim proneness
i.e. the characteristics that make victims different from and me vulnerable than non-victims, e.g. being less intelligent
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Victim precipitation
e.g. Wolfgang's (1958) study of 588 homicides found that 760% involved the victim triggering the events leading to murder, e.g. being the first to use violence
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Evaluation
This approach is close to being 'victim blaming', where victimisation appears to be the victim's own fault. It also ignores wider structural factors such as poverty and patriarchy
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Victim proneness
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i.e. the characteristics that make victims different from and me vulnerable than non-victims, e.g. being less intelligent
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