Innocence Of Victims

Question 1

Who argued that the completely innocent victim is the ideal, where several characteristics are associated?

Answer 1

Christie (1986)

Question 2

Describe the ideal victim.

Answer 2

1. Difficult to protect themselves
2. Carrying out a respectable project when they were victimized.
3. Location where she/he couldn’t be blamed
4. Offender must be perceived as “bad”
5. Victim must be a stranger to the offender

Question 3

What is the definition of an “Ideal Victim”?

Answer 3

Ideal victims are those who it is believed would find it difficult or impossible to protect themselves from criminal offenders.

Question 4

True or false? Ideal victims would be strangers to those that offend against them.

Answer 4

True

Question 5

Give a breakdown of the three main costs associated with personal crime.

Answer 5

Health and medical costs
Economic costs
Criminal justice costs

Question 6

Is there crime victim compensation in Barbados?

Answer 6

No

Question 7

Is there crime victim compensation in the USA?

Answer 7

Yes, where crime compensation paid $165.9 million for medical and dental costs, $73.5 million in lost wages and lost support, $40.3 million for burial costs and $8.6 million for forensic rape exams etc…

Question 8

True or false? The Ideal Victim should be victimized in a location where he cannot possibly be blamed for being.

Answer 8

True

Question 9

True or false? In the ‘Ideal Victim’ narrative, the offender should NOT be perceived as someone bad.

Answer 9

False. The offender should be perceived as bad.

Question 10

Who authored the Lifestyle Exposure Theory?

Answer 10

Micheal Hindelang, Michael Gottfredson, James Garofalo.

Question 11

What was the Lifestyle Exposure Theory trying to explain?

Answer 11

The patterns observed in victimization data, where research evidence indicated that males, young adults, and racial minorities experience higher criminal victimization than other groups.

Question 12

What does the lifestyle theory propose?

Answer 12

That a lifestyle brings someone into contact with the groups in which offenders are disproportionately represented or puts people into those places.

Question 13

Give the 8 components of the lifestyle exposure theory.

Answer 13

1. The more time individuals spend in public places the more likely they are to be victimized.
2. Following certain lifestyles makes a individuals more likely to frequent public places.
3. Interactions that individuals maintain tend to be with those who share their lifestyles.
4. The probability that an indicator will be a victim increases to the extent to which victims and offenders belong to the same demographic categories.
5. Time one spends where there is a large number of non-family members varies according to lifestyle.
6. Chance that an individual will be a victim of crime increases in conj. with time he/she spends among non-family members