CRM 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Victim Blaming, Vehicle Insurance, Circular Reasoning

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 3306
• Professor: Adina Ilea

Document Summary

Making sense of victimization: when you hear stories of victimization, what do you want to know, why do you want to know these things, prevention, protection from harm. Victim-blaming: what is victim blaming, do you think some types of victims are blamed more than others, sex-workers are seen as more blameworthy, whereas children as seen as unblameworthy. Victim-blaming: slutwalks: 2011, york university speaker event, police officer"s comments, protest was organized, movement spread over 2,000 countries. Blaming the victim: the case of a": 2003, 14 year old girl, montreal, blamed for her victimization by defense lawyer. Early victimologists: hans von henting (1887-1974), the criminal and his victim (1948), explored the relationship between the doer" and the sufferer". Positive and negative aspects of the early typologies: brought victim into view, focus remained on offender, however, did not look at impact of crime on victims, did not address victim recovery.