Juan Escobar's Victim Status

Using the critical victimology perspective, this paper has shown the process in which Juan Escobar’s victim status was contested and acquired. He had a loving father, but at the same time, a destructive one who was responsible for the deaths of many people (Escobar, 2016). At different points of his life, Juan was a victim of his father’s crimes – where he was discriminated, physically, mentally, and psychologically hurt. Moreover, he was constantly regarded as Escobar’s son, associated with the offending behaviour, which made claiming the victim status tough for him. Eventually, Juan had to fight for his own victim status after his father’s death by negotiating peace with his father’s enemies (Escobar, 2016).
Juan Escobar stated in his autobiography