theories of victimisation

Question 1

what is positivist victimlogy

Answer 1

-tierney suggest you can identify characterstics in victims that make them more likely to be vicitms

Question 2

what 2 characterstics does tierney identify

Answer 2

victim proneness and vicitm precipitation

Question 3

what is vicitm proneness

Answer 3

-identifies the charactertsics of individuals or groups that make them more vulnerbale to victimisation e.g living in deprived area

Question 4

what is victim of precipaptation

Answer 4

-suggests that victims are in some way responsible for becoming victims e.g women dressing provactively or leaving valuables on display in car

Question 5

how can we evalauate positivists

Answer 5

-blames victims not offenders
-downplays role of the law in not tackling offending effectively
-focuses too much on characteristics of victims

Question 6

what is radical vicitmology

Answer 6

-marxists and feminists
-focuses on wider social issues
-e.g weakest and poorest memebers of society likely to be vicitms
-rape and DV (women are main vicitms)reflect male power and patriarchy
-ethnic minorities= victimised due to institutional racism - not properly protected (always seen as offenders not victims)

Question 7

how to evaluate radical victimology

Answer 7

-ignores vicitm precipitaiton and vicitm proneness
-does not acknowledge that women may be pepertrtors at the same time e.g those groomed for county lines e.g drug dealing