Victims And Victimization

Victims and Victimization
Jessieca Omowele
Keiser University
Criminology
September 18, 2011
Professor Colon

Abstract

Until the 1980s, the written report of crime and optical aberration focused on the abominable or deviant, or on the social processes that labeled particular actions as criminal or deviant. From the 1980s onwards, there has been an interest in the study of the victims- who they are, the interactions amongst criminal and victim, and the effect of crime or other difference on the victim (Abercrombie, Hill and Turner 2006).

Victims and Victimization
Victims were once viewed to be in the wrong place at the wrong clipping but that changed more than 60 years ago when studies prove that, the victims own behavior is important in the crime process. Victims were found to influence criminal behavior by playing an active role in a criminal incident, such as when an assault victim initially provokes an eventual(prenominal) attacker. Victims basin also play an indirect role in a criminal incident, such as when a cleaning lady adopts a conductstyle that continually brings her into high-crime areas (Siegel 2011).
The discovery that victims play an important role in the crime process has prompted the scientific study of victims, or victimology.



Criminologists who focus their attention on crime victims invoke to themselves as victimologists(Siegel 2011).

Victimizations Toll on Society
The cost of victimization can include such things as disgraced property, pain and suffering to victims, and the involvement of the police and other agencies of the evaluator system. The pain and suffering inflicted on an individual can essence in the need for medical care, the loss of wages from non being able to go to work, and reduced quality of life from debilitating injuries and /or fear of being victimized again, which can result in not being able to go to work, long term medical care, and counseling.There is an abuse-crime phenomenon called the cycle of personnel which means people who are crime victims...If you want to set about a full essay, order it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com



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