SACR 3620 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Victim Blaming, Victimology, Home Improvement

• School: University of Windsor
• Department: Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology
• Course: SACR 3620
• Professor: Groulx

Document Summary

Alarms, having someone pick up your mail when on vacation. Isolating self from others who could intervene: there is a tendency that such victims do not learn from their mistakes as the results are identical every time. Mendelsohn"s typology (of victims: the entirely innocent victim, the less guilty victim, victim by ignorance, e. g. Home improvement scams: door to door scammers, the victim equally guilty as the offender; the voluntary victim (suicide, euthanasia, the victim more guilt than the offender, victim contribution to the act, the guilty victim. Wolfgang and sellin typology: based on the type of victimization rather than the type of victim, primary victimization=individual victims, secondary victimization=commercial establishments. Shared responsibility (terms to explain victim contribution to a criminal event: facilitation- victims unknowingly, carelessly, negligently and inadvertently make it easier for offender to commit a theft, e. g. Leave a purse visible in a car seat: precipitation- victim significantly contributes to the event, e. g.