CRIM 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Victimology, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder, Language Barrier
15 Jun 2014
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Personality characteristics: why some people are offenders while others are not, discounts aspect of crime. Taught that victims are never responsible for the crime they are in. Crime as events-characteristics: occur at certain times and places between certain people systematic- at the wrong place and time varying outcomes. Depends on what transpires during the event episodic- they have a beginning and an end involves the public. The 3 stages: precursors locational and situational factors that bring people together in time and space. Daily routines (taking the sky train to work/school) Geographical (bars, clubs, or other social gatherings) Random (random meetings) biological precursors(short tempers) offender. > role of 3rd party, proactive policing: transactions the exchanges that take place during the event and its situational context. > actual harm and action taken to protect oneself public. > action of bystanders and police to intervene the crime: aftermath the consequences of the crime include harm to victim, punishment to offenders and public reactions.
