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,(Ch.7) Victimology and patterns of victimization - ANSWERSThe scientific study of
Victims and victimization
-our fear of crime is largely unfounded
E.g., fear of crime vs. reality of crime
Social justice: structural victimization, crimes of domination, crimes of criminal justice
system
individual and organizational
Benjamin Mindleson - ANSWERSFather of Victimology
1948 Hans Von Hentig - ANSWERSdeveloped the first landmark of victimology
Victimology focuses on 3 things: - ANSWERS1. Criminal Victimization (robbery,
burglary, theft, etc.)
2. Victim offender relationship
-stranger crime do happen, but they are less likely to happen to us
-more likely to be sexually assaulted by someone they know
3. Victim precipitation
-did a victim play a role in becoming a victim
PAGE 176 **** Amnesty international - ANSWERS(Block off section)
"highlighted evidence that racial minorities
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Penaal Violence - ANSWERSmisconduct happening inside a correctional facility
-Example: officer overlooking someone getting killed/raped in jail or prison
Relative Deprivation - ANSWERSIncome inequality and the part that it plays in
victimization
"manufacturing toxic job, that causes workers to obtain cancer"
Enron Scandal - ANSWERSfocus on it ...********
Class and victimization - ANSWERSStrong connection between economic inequality
and victimization "inequality"
, People at the low end of income distribution are 4X's (remember this)* likely to be a
victim of a violent crime as those in the upper range. Rape, robbery, assault.
More money you have, the safer you are... you live in better communities, better
neighborhoods, low crime rates, etc.
The disparity is even greater when the violence is severe (i.e., injury)
The same is true for property crime and burglary
thus, the crimes that Americans fear the most are most likely to happen to the poor
True of harm caused by government and cooperate acts as well
Victimization and Race - ANSWERSWhite make up the majority of the poor, minorities
are disproportionately poor and disproportionately victims of crime
Social disorganization and social ecology link crime and victimization to "kinds of
places" rather than "kinds of people."
-deviant place theory
"Weathering Framework" *** - ANSWERSby Arline Geronimus argues that "blacks are,
biologically speaking, older than whites of the same chronological age" in Detroit
victimization of racism and stress, weathers and erodes the human body
Fueling the progression of disease, aging, and death
Also affects Latino immigrants and South Asian Indian mothers
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Victimization and Race (2) - ANSWERSBlacks are more likely than whites to be cities of
overall violence
Native Americans have the overall highest rate of violent victimization (with the
exception of those considered (multiracial)
Intraracial crimes
-(black on black crime) (white on white) (those of the same race)
-2012, FBI reports, 2,614 homicides (white on white); 2,412 homicides (black on black)
Homicides are concentrated among black men (as victims and perpetrators)