Slide 3 - Victim of Crime and Victims of Consciousness

Question 1

What is victimization

Answer 1

It is the targeting of an individual or group for subjection to crime, unfair treatment, or another wrong

Question 2

What is victims of non crime

Answer 2

People who suffer because the government has failed to regulate dangerous activities

Question 3

What are ordinary rule-benders

Answer 3

includes people with deviant appearances [freaks and geeks] or unusual sexual preferences

Question 4

What is victims of consciousness

Answer 4

They are people who bend the rules or even break them because their principles will not let them conform to society’s dominant belief

Question 5

What are examples of ‘victim of consciousness’

Answer 5

They are heretics, whistle-blowers, conscientious objectors, war resisters, or merely bohemians and members of counterculture

Question 6

What theory is Durkheim in

Answer 6

Functionalist

Question 7

What does Durkheim have to say about the normality of crime

Answer 7

He argues that crime is present, in all societies, of every type

Question 8

What is routine activity theory

Answer 8

This theory states that crime depends mainly on opportunities and opportunities are created by activity patterns

Question 9

What are hot spots

Answer 9

it is apart of the routine activity theory

It is locations where the risks of crime are especially high;

Question 10

What are examples of hotspots

Answer 10

downtown entertainment districts and tourist attractions

Question 11

Do hot spots include not public places

Answer 11

yes, family homes when abuse is present

Question 12

What are suitable targets

Answer 12

they are people who are regularly exposed to crime or for other reasons have heightened vulnerability

Question 13

What are the age of suitable targets

Answer 13

Young Canadians aged 15-24, single, people living in urban areas . and people who have a household income under 15k

Question 14

What puts women in more danger then men do

Answer 14

Public places increase the risk of rape for women

Question 15

What is the lifestyle theory

Answer 15

Builds on the idea that t victimization depends on a persons lifestyle

Question 16

What type of lifestyle are more likely to be victimized than other lifestyles

Answer 16

High risk lifestyles are more likely to be victimized than people wth low-risk lifestyle

Question 17

What is the Deviant place theory

Answer 17

People who live in dangerous social areas are at greater risk of victimization

Question 18

What does the social disorganization theory have in common with the deviant place theory

Answer 18

Deviant place theory refers to the risk associated with living in the bad areas of town

Question 19

What is the best way to avoid victimization

Answer 19

To move to a better neighbourhood

Question 20

How would you relate homelessness and the lifestyle theory

Answer 20

Living on the streets increases their risk of victimization by exposing homeless people to criminals and crime

Question 21

How does homelessness relate to the deviant place theory

Answer 21

Helps us understand why homeless people are criminally victimized more often than members of the general population

Question 22

What is the victim precipitation theory

Answer 22

It proposes that people create their own risk of being victimized - through verbal provocation, body language, or wearing certain types of clothes

Question 23

What is an example of victims precipitation theory

Answer 23

Builds on the fact that some people are repeated victims of crime while other people rarely or never suffer victimization

Question 24

How does routine activity theory relate to street prostitutes

Answer 24

They are available targets since they roam the streets in search of customers

Question 25

What is the victimization of consciousness

Answer 25

It is the victimization people suffer because they feel morally obliged to break society’s rules, which they consider wrong or immoral, then suffer punishment for acting according to their consciousness

Question 26

What is the process of socialization

Answer 26

Refers to how people increasingly connect to an abstract ‘society’ not to a community in which every person knows everyone else

Question 27

What are some ways people victimize themselves [victim precipitation theory]

Answer 27

Clothing

Activities, languages

Repeated victims

Accident

Question 28

Which sex does religion usually designed to serve their interest

Answer 28

designed to serve male interest - women were seen as carriers of evil - witch craze