LS224 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Robert Latimer, Nils Christie, Victim Blaming
5 Oct 2016
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_________________: we like to believe victims deserve to be victimized, we seek comfort in answers that keep us from questioning there are patterns to victimization. Victimize to make victim of to cause to su er discomfort, inconvenience. 1 -marital rape, date rape laws - social products not handed down from god: what they prohibit = may tell us far more about who has power and who doesn"t. Section 2 of the corrections and condition release act (ccra) Direct victimization: experienced when an individual in some relatively immediate way becomes the object of criminal harm. Indirect victimization: the adverse reactions that others, who have not been directly victimized by crime (e. g. , family, friends) may experience. A sort of public status of the same type and level of abstraction as that, for example, of a hero or a traitor. It is difficult to count these ideal victims just as it is difficult to count heroes.
