a quality some individuals or groups have that makes them more likely than others to become victims of crime E.g. men more aggressive than women
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Victim contribution
through negligence. Also their action or lack of action contributes to their victimization
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Victim provocation
Victims behave in ways that causes their victimization: a form of victim-blaming
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Lifestyle Exposure Theory
Explains personal victimization as an outgrowth of a victim's high-risk behavior patterns and associations
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factors of L.E.T.
night, victims are alone, relationship between victim and offender (personal victimization), exposure to criminogenic situations
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L.E.T. 1
Lifestyle directly influences personal victimization by bringing people into contact with offenders during their lives.
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L.E.T 2
Influences an individual's level of exposure to situations directly related to victimization.
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L.E.T. 3
Lifestyle affects one's risk of victimization indirectly by structuring personal associations: Differential association
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Differential associations- Lifestyle Exposure Theory
major factor in crime. People who associate often with others engaged in unlawful behaviour are more likely to be victimized; because of increased exposure to high risk situations and environments
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Routine Activities Theory- R.A.T.
Explains victimization as an offender's rational choice to risk potential negative consequences of offending in favour of potential gain.
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R.A.T.- Lawrence Cohen and Marcus Felson
1979- developed an approach for analyzing changes in the level of crime known as routine activities theory.
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R.A.T 1.
Like lifestyle theory, it recognizes the importance of people's everyday actions in one explanation for criminal victimization
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R.A.T 2
Rational activities theorists assume humans are motivated by the desire to have things that give them pleasure. Most important are the differential opportunities that exists for victimization
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Differential opportunity - Rational activities theory
the circumstances in which crime occurs, the differences in the opportunities for crime based on characteristics of potential settings and contexts.
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Rational choice theory- Rational activities theory
Key assumption of R.A.T is that crime is motivated through rational choice
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Card 2
Front
Def - Victim Precipitation Theory
Back
Attempts to explain victimization through an analysis of the crime situation and the interpersonal interaction between offenders and victims
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