ATS2469 Chapter Notes -Victimisation, Victim Blaming, Critical Criminology
11 Sep 2013
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Binary: victim blamers victims might share the responsibility with offender if facilitation, precipitation or provocation of the event occurred. E. g. they would say that anyone should be able to wave around and not expect to become a victim. Shared responsibility: facilitation victims unknowingly, carelessly, negligently and inadvertently make it easier for offender to commit a theft. E. g. you told them you were going to mcdonalds with cash: precipitation victim significantly contributes to the event. E. g. shouting into the phone that you"re about to walk to your unlocked car with cash: provocation more responsible than perpetrator for the fight that ensued. Goaded, challenged or incited a generally law-abiding citizen into taking defensive action. E. g. assault and robbery because you loudly said you were walking to your unlocked car with cash. Positivist criminology: finding the causal conditions for criminal behaviour and thus assumes that the presence of these conditions makes the criminal.
