Policing and Criminal Justice by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, Criminology, Political Science, Law Enforcement
ISBN: 9781844456543
Google: DGLd6bT6ceQC
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Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2010-03-31T00:00:00+00:00

Victim models

Hans von Hentig (1948) went on to construct a category or ‘typology’ of victims, which includes the notions of ‘proneness’ and ‘culpability’. He argued that some people are vulnerable and therefore more prone to becoming a victim, or are perhaps blameworthy and therefore ‘culpable’. It can be the victim’s actual status, their physical appearance or their behaviour that makes them prone or blameworthy, for example the elderly, women, children and the mentally ill, or those who openly display signs of wealth:

In a sense the victim shapes and moulds the criminal . . . [and] it would not be correct nor complete to speak of a carnivorous animal, its habits and characteristics, without looking at the prey on which it lives. In a certain sense the animals which devour and those that are devoured complement one another.

(von Hentig, 1948, p27)

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