Victimology

Question 1

What is victimology?

Answer 1

The study of the victims of crime and the psychological effects of their experience

Question 2

What is positivist?

Answer 2

Aims to identify victims who have contributed to their own victimisation.

Question 3

What does Miers say?

Answer 3

3 features of positive victimology:
1. Aims to identify factors which lead to victimisation
2. focuses on interpersonal crimes of violence
3. aims to identify victims who contributes to their own victimisation.

Question 4

What does Berill et al say?

Answer 4

The norms and values adopted by a society can lead to victimisation
e.g. ‘gay bashing’ is a result of homosexuals deviating from heterosexual norms and a way for the perpetrator to affirm to those norms.

Question 5

What does Mawby and Walklate say?

Answer 5

Victimisation is a form of structural powerlessness.

Question 6

What does Hans Von Hentig say?

Answer 6

There are 13 characteristic that make someone more likely to be a victim of a crime:
- young
- female
- old
- immigrants
- depressed
- mental illness
- the acquisite
- dull normal
- minorities
- lonesome
- heartbroken
- tormentor
- the blocked/the fighter