Victimology

Relevant Stakeholders When it comes to witness intimidation, there are several stake holders to take into account. These stakeholder can be greatly affected by the act of witness intimidation and the come from varying fields. These field span from social to legal with perspectives that vary as well. In no particular order, the first of the stakeholders include victim-witness units and crime victim advocacy groups (Debel, 2006). For these two stakeholders the main purpose of them is to be there…

My car slowly comes to a halt as I approach the blinking light that serves as the only form of traffic control in this town. Usually, I would just continue down the long stretch of road to my house, but I decide to turn left and venture onto the streets where I spent my childhood. The first building I come upon is my former elementary school. This place was once the center of my life, but it has now been shut down and quickly is becoming dilapidated. I cannot help but notice a somber feeling in…

Several studies have been conducted in regards to blaming the victims for the unfortunate events that have befallen them. One theory mentioned in many of the studies is Shaver’s (1970) Defensive Attribution Theory (DAT), in which he hypothesized that individuals blame victims when they feel the victim is more interchangeable with themselves. This theory is an important aspect to consider when studying the effects of in-group/out-group on victim blaming. An in-group member would be a person who…

The insecurity in Lima needs to disappear in 2021 Lima, the Capital City of Peru, was founded by Francisco Pizarro on January 18, 1535. With a population of almost 10 million, Lima is the most populous metropolitan area of Peru and the second largest city in the Americas, behind Sao Paulo and before Mexico City. Lima is the country´s commercial and industrial center and one of Latin America´s most important financial centers. And as a big city it also has big problems, one of them, is the crime…

Benefits of counselling Supportive counselling can help victims of sexual assault by normalizing reactions and post-assault experiences. Many victims are influenced by social and cultural factors that perpetuate attitudes of victim-blaming and stereotypes (Baker et al., 2012). Starzynski & Ullman (2014), find that victims who have the benefit of disclosing to a supportive, non-judgmental individual experience fewer or reduced long-term effects after an assault. Disclosure to family, friends,…

In the early 1970s, Radical feminists (RF) began to explore how gender and sexuality affect the context of crime and victimisation, particularly rape and other forms of sexual violence. They highlighted that legal discourse follows a patriarchal, phallocentric culture and structure that prioritizes masculinity and maintains power distributions favoured towards men. Heterosexuality is assumed thus rape is only seen as legitimate when it involves male penetration and female sexual pleasure is…

Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her is filled with intricate and complicated tale of love, lust and longings. The part that may be the most intriguing is about the characters being realize by Junot Diaz’s from the viewpoint of an immigrant, charming the readers with their side of the story living in the same community as us. A tale that tells us about their life including their struggles and yearning for their home country when life is harsh towards them, as well as the story about their love and…

Two young men from the inner city part of Baltimore, Maryland located right on the boarder that separated Maryland from Washington, DC found each other as one of the young men developed a weird connection with another young man that he had never met before. Sharing the same exact name as him with the feeling that this connection was destiny being from the same exact area, only visiting the prison a couple times Wes Moore (Wes 1) was able to see that they lived somewhat of a similar but different…

What is deviance, could you tell which youths are the ‘bad eggs’ and which ones you want your children to befriend? What about those who embezzle and commit fraud, are they also deviant? Being such a broad topic, is there really a single theory out there that can explain why deviance occurs. From arguments that it happens because of the culture of the lower class to issues surrounding the ego, or perhaps its environmental factors that explain deviance. I will argue that because deviance is a…

Case conceptualization, (the following presents a hypothetical case conceptualization) Jack is a truck driver that has recently gotten out of the hospital. He was in the hospital because he found himself the victim of a mugging while he was parked at a truck stop, somewhere north of the United States border. The assailant did not come out of nowhere, rather he walked up to Jack and seemed friendly enough. The aggressor began by asking for directions. Nothing really seemed out of the ordinary for…