Gender and Victimisation

Question 1

Which crimes are women more likely to be victims of?

Answer 1

Victims of domestic violence, sexual harassment and assault

Question 2

Which crimes are men more likely to be victims of?

Answer 2

Victims of violence in public

Question 3

Why don’t victims of sexual assault report it to the police?

Answer 3

Because sexual harassment has become normalised and female victims generally don’t challenge perpetrators out of fear of escalation

Question 4

What would Marxist feminists argue is the cause of domestic violence?

Answer 4

Capitalism is the cause of domestic violence as men are exploited in the workplace and may therefore take out their frustration on women at home through domestic violence

Question 5

What does Messerschmidt argue is the cause of men sexually harassing women?

Answer 5

Sexually harass women in order to assert their hegemonic masculinity

Question 6

Why don’t many women report crimes?

Answer 6

Don’t report crimes due to institutional sexism in the criminal justice system

only 7% of rape cases end in a criminal conviction

Question 7

Why may women be reluctant to report being victims of crime?

Answer 7

May be reluctant due to fears of secondary victimisation

Question 8

What is secondary victimisation?

Answer 8

Where women become victims a second time in dealing with the police and courts