Gender and Victimization

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Gender and Victimization
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Introduction
Victimology studies various aspects of the psychology of the victim's behavior. There are
two directions of victimology. The first direction focuses on victim of crime and the second
direction focuses on physical, mental and social traits and signs that create a predisposition to the
transformation of a person into a victim (crime, accident, destructive cult, etc.). According to
modern criminological data, 10-15% of crimes committed against the health and dignity of the
individual are accounted for by sexual violence. According to American criminologists, one in
eight women in the US was raped at least once in their lives. Thus, in the United States, more
than 12 million women were raped. Sexual violence can happen to any woman, anytime and
anywhere. No one is guaranteed from this type of attack completely. Victimization can help in
unearthing some of the possible factors that makes women easy victims than men.
Body/Discussion
Victimization is the process of acquiring victimization, or, in other words, it is the
process of turning a person into a victim and its consequences. Victimization, thus, combines
both dynamics (the realization of victimization) and statics (the realized victimhood). Even in
ancient times, it was observed that the fate of a person depends to a certain extent on himself.
This was reflected in the folk folklore: "Every man is a blacksmith of his own fortune," "a bang
and luck in his hands," "a short sword in the hands of a brave man becomes a long one", etc.
Moran, Skeggs, Tyrer & Corteen (2003 p. 179) notes that there are no "natural victims" or
"victims from nature". But the physical, psychological and social traits and attributes acquired by
a person (some physical and other shortcomings, an inability to self-defense or a lack of
readiness for it, a special external, psychic or material attraction) can make him predisposed to
becoming a victim of crime.

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Common determinants are considered in numerous theories of victimization include the
uncontrollable power superiority of the stronger (and occupying more significant social
positions), which results in violence against the weak, who are in less socially significant
positions (Ranasinghe, 2013 p.827); traditional discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender,
sexual or sexual orientation, age, mental or physical disability; isolation from society,
bureaucracy, depersonification, lack of communication (spiritual and emotional) between people,
etc.
Most women, especially at the age of 18-23, are focused on finding a permanent partner
for a family, which is accompanied by numerous acquaintances (not always safe), visits to
various public places (clubs, dance floors, party apartments, etc.). , where the consumption of
alcoholic beverages is widespread. All these circumstances can become dangerous in terms of
sexual victimization, given that women are weaker physically and are not always able to protect
themselves from physical violence by men (Davis 2007, p. 2009). That is why the number of
victimized at this age is greater than in other age groups.
The woman will be victimized in any social conditions already by virtue of her physical
data and natural predispositions. At the same time, there are also social determinants of the
victimization of women whose parameters are subject to transformation in a changing world.
In rape, the object of crime is the woman's sexual freedom as a form of freedom and
immunity in general, i.e. the possibility of free choice of sexual partners and entering into sexual
relations with them. The offender causes the victim to submit to the force or threat of imminent
death, serious physical injury, extreme pain, kidnapping, etc. With regard to rape of minors, the
object of crime is also sexual inviolability. The interrelation between the concepts of sexual
inviolability and sexual freedom is that sexual inviolability is an element (part) and a guarantee