ATS2469 Chapter Notes -Vagrancy Act 1824, Victimisation, Metropolitan Police Service
7 Oct 2013
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Blurring the distinction between offender and victim: youth and homelessness. Culturally, socially, political, temporally and historically defined: not static. Social divisions and victimisation interconnected: experience of crime, recognition as victim, response to victimisation. Significant divisions where power inequalities, marginalisation, social inclusion/exclusion can be mapped include sex, race and ethnicity, class, and age. Childhood and youth as categories constitutive of diversity. Yet there is a naturalistic tendency to regard them as a necessary and universal category. An ill-defined and variable period of the life-span between infancy and adulthood. The study of youth victimisation emerged in the 1990s. High levels of youth victimisation: serious: Sexual & physical abuse: less serious: Victimisation of young people tends to be under-reported: taken less seriously: part of growing up . Youth category often associated with the problem of youth where society seeks to control & disempower. Hence, much victimisation is likely to remain hidden.
