CRIM 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Victimology, Bad Hindelang, Social Inequality
16 Oct 2016
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Life-style exposure, opportunity and routine activities theory evolved in the 70s, when victimization surveys started to gain in popularity. Victimization surveys tried to figure out who was being victimized, who was doing the victimization, what the relationship was between victim and victimizer (if any), where and when incidencets of victimization take place, how often victimization occurred, etc. Also a time when crime rates were rising dramatically and victims were demanding the government to take action to protect them. Victimology, opportunity theory, lifestyle exposure theory, routine activities theory, and rational choice theory are quite similar. All tend to view criminal event in terms of time-space continuum (or environmental backcloth), and examine ways in which offenders and victims intersect in time and space, in the absence of capable guardian. Introduced in 1978, by hindelang, gottfredson, and garofalo. Same gottfredson who co-authored a general theory of crime with travis hirschi.
