C+D VICTIMOLOGY 12

Question 1

WHY MIGHT VICTIMS NOT REPORT CRIME?

Answer 1

lack of condiecne in polcie, wish to protect perpitrator, embarrassment, social pressure like shame, fear of concealment, unaware of their victimisation

Question 2

POSOTIVIST VICTIMOLOGY: meris 3 parts

Answer 2

1)identify factors that produce patterns in victimisation and factors which make people more prone to be victims
2) focus on impersonal crimes of violence
3)indentify victims which have contributed to their own victimisation

Question 3

POSOTIVIST VICTIMOLOGY: victim proness

Answer 3

certain characteristics of people make them mroe likely to be a victim than other people

Question 4

POSOTIVIST VICTIMOLOGY:
victim precipitation

Answer 4

victims contribute to them becoming a victim. wolf gang stuff of 588 homosides found that 28% this involved was victim triggering events leading to their death

Question 5

POSOTIVIST VICTIMOLOGY:
A03

Answer 5

victim blaming, piers claim that 1/5 rapes are victim precipitated is not very different form saying they asked for it. ignores wider structural factors influencing victimisation such as patriarchy and poverty
ignores crimes where even the victim doesnt know theyre a victim

Question 6

CRITICAL VICTIMOLOGY:
structural factors

Answer 6

patrahcle and poverty, which place the powerless groups such as women nd poor at great risk of victimisation

Question 7

CRITICAL VICTIMOLOGY:
the states power to apply or deny the label or victim

Answer 7

being a victim is a social construct, the same as ‘crime’ or ‘criminal’ the cjs applies labels of victim to some and not to others

Question 8

CRITICAL VICTIMOLOGY:
a02 tombs and Whyte 2007

Answer 8

shows that when employers violate the law and it lead to death of victims it is called accident prone rather than victim. the powerful can de-label or avoid being labelled

Question 9

CRITICAL VICTIMOLOGY:
a03

Answer 9

ignores the the victim brought it on themselves, highlights how the label of victim is given by the powerful at the benefit of the powerful

Question 10

patterns of victimisation:
CLASS

Answer 10

The poor are likely to become victims as their is huge concentration of crime in poor areas of high unemployment

Question 11

patterns of victimisation:AGE

Answer 11

THE YOUNG are more likely to be assaulted and face sexual harassment, theft and abuse at home. elderly may be subjected to absue in nursing homes

Question 12

patterns of victimisation:
ETHNICITY

Answer 12

ETHNCI minority groups are mroe at risk than whites of being victims of racially motivated offences

Question 13

patterns of victimisation:
GENDER

Answer 13

men are at greater risks of violent attacks. women are more likely victims of sexual or domestic abuse/stalking/harasment