CRJS230 Lecture Notes - Larceny, Married People, Victim Blaming

• School: Mercyhurst University
• Department: Criminal Justice
• Course: CRJS230
• Professor: Dr. Kirchner

Document Summary

Victims and victimization: the ncvs estimates 20 million theft and violence victimizations occur annually in the united states, might not be 20 million separate people but there are 20 million acts, economic costs. In contrast, rural homes, white homes, and those in the northeast are the least likely to contain crime victims or be the target of theft offenses, such as burglary or larceny. Individuals who have been crime victims have a significantly higher chance of future victimization than people who have not been victims: factors that predict chronic victimization: target vulnerability, target gratifiability, and target antagonism, target vulnerability. The victims" physical weakness or psychological distress renders them incapable of resisting or deterring crime and makes them easy targets: target gratifiability. Some victims have a quality, possession, skill, or attribute that an offender wants to obtain, use, have access to, or manipulate.