vitcimology

Question 1

what are the 3 sources of data?

Answer 1

• police and court stats
• crime survey
• local victim surveys

Question 2

who is most likely to be a victim?

Answer 2

young, female, mixed raced

Question 3

positivist victimology: meir

Answer 3

• focuses on personal responsibility
• aims to indentify the factors that produce patterns in victimisation
• focused on the impersonal crimes of violence
• aims to indentify victims who have contributed to their own victimisation

Question 4

AO3 against positivist victimology

Answer 4

• victim blaming
• some people are not aware they are victims
• ignores cultural factors

Question 5

Critical victimology: marxists and feminists

Answer 5

• focus on structural factors, e.g patriarchy and poverty
• the state has power to apply or deny the label of the victim, suggesting it’s a social construct