Most people think that nothing bad will happen to them (e.g. robbery, kidnapping, theft, rape, domestic violence and so on), but the truth is that no one is protected. It is widely known how powerful the personal experience can be regarding the recognition of risk and the eagerness to take to take precautions. Even when people fail to take precautions, this also can be attributed to experience, which means it needs an examination.
Now you are going to take a look at the preventive behaviours of victimized and not victimized groups. It is obvious that in many cases the lack of protective measurements contributed somewhat to victimization. If you make a comparison between the two groups, you can see that at the time of the crime burglary victims had fewer household security measurements than not victimized. (Weinstein, 1989) As you can see there is no guarantee when or who is going to be victimized. Many will think that burglary victims’ experience does not deserve to be examined, but they are wrong. The main reason is that households are something sacred, where a family stores its memories, documents and everything else that no one different from family member deserves to see. This mean that these victims do not deserve invaded homes.
Although there are people, who understand that victims are not mentally ill, some of the services do not. You should examine fully people’s experience during the crime and provide them help, because some victims avoid mental help mostly because they do not want to experience the same thing all over again. You must show understanding to them. On the other hand you have the group of mentally ill people. You should be even more careful with them, because of their state of mental health. The bad thi...
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...r the police get their details. What is more these days Victim Support is plotting ways to encourage more victims to contact them and the main group of them are those, who are vulnerable and repetitive. (Maguire, Morgan and Reiner, 2012)
This essay covered a few different points of view regarding victim’s experience during a crime and in nutshell you all can agree that is better to fully examine it. This is the best way to lend a helping hand to another human being. Everyone deserves a good life and no one should be left behind and neglected just because they have experienced something different from the normal way of life. The other thing that this essay is trying to point to the victims is that there is no need of shame no matter what you have been through. In this way you can protect other people from harm and it will be easier to get your life back in track.
…many people now acquire "victimhood" through counseling. Being a "victim" draws sympathy. It explains the tragedies, the failures, the hardships, the health problems and the disappointments of life. It relieves people of some of life's natural burdens: dealing with complexity, facing things beyond their control, and accepting responsibility for decisions and actions.
Cries for help usually go unanswered leaving the victim to think, “Why is this happening to me?” or “What did I do to deserve this?” Most of the time they have done nothing at all, but still are in a hurricane of thoughts trying to fathom why they are getting picked on. Some w...
According to RAINN, (2009) approximately 10 per cent of all victims of sexual assault and abuse are adult and juvenile males. In terms of the nature of assault, real figures include a compendium of reported incidents ranging from unwanted sexual touching to forced penetration. To qualify this statement, it must be understood that the percentage does not reflect a vast number of crimes that go unreported due to issues that will be discussed in the present paper.
They’ re basically victims of people that they already know because of their lifestyle such as frequent visits to the same clubs, the amount of alcohol consumption, and more (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). It is said that this people are victimized because of their demographics, they are bystanders, witnesses, and that a violent person becomes victim of violence (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). Shapiro and Maras (2015) indicated that a non-ideal victim can be due to miscarriages of justice, human trafficking, police brutality, and even victims with prior criminal records (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). Research says that if those individual are accepted as victims then society would be acknowledging that there is something wrong with the Criminal Justice system (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). This would include victims who have been assaulted or rape in prisons, victims of intimate partner relationships, rape, physical trauma, and victims in mental hospitals. One of the differences of the two victims is that the ideal victim is recognize by the criminal justice system and the other is not perceive as worthy or deserving of the status (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). One thing that needs to be further look into are children of domestic violence and their involvement with the criminal justice
Victimology is the scientific study of the physical, emotional, and financial harm people suffer from illegal activities. A common struggle Victimologists face is determining who the victim is. In general, crimes don 't have an “ideal victim”. The term ideal victims refer to someone who receives the most sympathy from society (Christie, 2016). An example of this would be a hardworking, honest man who on his way to work, had his wallet taken by force. Most people in society would have sympathy for him. He spent his life making an honest living to earn what he has and was a victim of a robbery. Victimologists study the interactions victims have with criminals, society, and the criminal justice system (Karmen, 2015). According to (Karmen, 2015)
It is very important to distinguish mental illness from those who commit crimes for various reasons which happens on a daily occurrence. To properly identify mental illness there must be a distinction between normality and pathological patterns of behavior. (4th ed., text rev.; DSM-IV-TR; American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Therefore, consistency of the pattern of the person suffering with mental illness is key in understanding that there is significant problem existing versus someone engaging in deviant behavior. We are constantly bombarded by newsreels of stories of violent acts committed from individuals whose behavior prior to the incidents should have enlisted the services of a psychiatric intervention to avert such crimes.
Generally, the study of crime mainly focused on the offender until quite recently. In fact, Shapland et al (1985) described the victim as ‘the forgotten man’ of the criminal justice system and ‘the non-person in the eyes of the professional participants’. A new perspective was brought with victimology, an expanding sub-discipline of crimin...
Wolhuter, Lorraine, Neil Olley, and David Denham. Victimology: victimisation and victims’ rights. London: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009.
Situational crime prevention in some crimes is more successful than that of developmental. Situational Crime prevention takes an approach that the victim is responsible for implementing measures to protect themselves whilst developmental needs programs to be undergone by the offender. The two prevention strategies will be discussed in relation to burglary.
In recent years the role of victims in the criminal justice system has risen into prominence, inspiring much research into victim experience and possible reform. There are a multitude of factors that influence policy makers in relation to reforming the criminal justice system, one of which is victims. However, victims while they can be catalysts for reforms such as the case of James Ramage among others, they still play a relatively minor role in influencing policy change.
Victims of crime will deal with a wide range of immediate, short-term and long-term reactions. All victims will experience shock, distress, numbness and disconnection. It can affect their emotional, psychological, physical, social, financial and spiritual wellbeing, causing people to change their behaviour and lifestyles. Victims who have suffered violent crimes and threats to their lives and personal injury will have a different reaction and have a harder time coping with their feelings than those who are victims of nonviolent
There are many forms of victimization which include, stalking, robbery, domestic violence, rape, sexual misconduct, assault, sexual harassment, and various others. Some individual risk factors include, young age, prior victimization, low education level, employment status (citation). The scenario reviewed for this assignment discusses an 8-year-old girl that has been victimized by her father. Evelyn lives at home with both her parents and one younger sibling, her family relocated recently to a new home at father insistence (Laureate Education, 2012). The main influence for Evelyn’s victimization is the victim offender relationship. The family relationship between victim and offender is that of a parental figure and their child. This relationship
Victims of crime will deal with a wide range of immediate, short-term and long-term reactions. All victims will experience shock, distress, numbness and disconnection. It can affect their emotional, psychological, physical, social, financial and spiritual wellbeing, causing people to change their behaviour and lifestyles. Victims who have suffered violent crimes and threats to their lives and personal injury will have a different reaction and have a harder time coping with their feelings than those who are victims of nonviolent crimes. As everyone reacts differently to similar offences it is impossible to predict what effects the individual victim will suffer.
Victimology puts first understanding the roles that the victims played in the crime and what caused them to be victimized, such as their actions and their behavior that took place during the crime. “The study of victimology is a fairly new subset in the study of criminology and emerged in the 1940s and 1950s. The early work of German scholar Hans von Hentig focused upon the need to examine the relationship between the victim and the criminal act” (Doerner & Lab, 2008). “He developed a classification typology of crime victims and argued that there were not only physical elements to consider (i.e. female, frail), but also various social and psychological disadvantages common to many crime victims” (Doerner & Lab, 2008). For example, when one has been in an abusive relationship for so long, they become so accustomed to what they are going through that it makes it so much more harder to leave their abuser, even if the abuse they experienced has been ongoing physical, emotional, or mental
Once we have determined who is a victim and how that determination is applicable to them we must determine the victim reaction after the crime. Will they seek help and report the crime? How will they react to the community’s response? The latter which leads to the fourth broad question of general victimology which is how society will, in turn, react to the victim after the crime (Doerner & Lab, 2012).