Victimization and Vulnerability in the Criminal Justice System
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Criminal Justice & Criminology 1
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Relating towards victims and vulnerability in the criminal justice system in previous research
and today's society, this essay will give a summary and a descriptive overview about victims
and vulnerability a close examination on how social conditions can be explained by which we
have come to consider these two concepts. This essay aims to build up an argument that
demonstrates how victimization and vulnerability developed to serve political and economic
interests.
The first chapter argues that due to lack of evidence on previous research, there was a little
amount of attention spent addressing victimization among groups that are more prone to
such as young, elderly, economically disadvantaged and so on. It will be contended that this
is a direct result of debates and policies around victims and vulnerability are neither
unbiased nor independent from more extensive ideological and economic interests. Analysis
of this interest is utilized to reconsider what is implied by the ‘ideal and perfect’ victim, a
concept of vulnerability and the measure of crime (Christie, 1986, pg. 21). Spalek (2006)
suggest that the perfect victim has been comprehended as the deserving victim by ideas of
the kind of victim that evokes our sympathies and victim services are justified (pg. 200).
Christie (1986) argues that this idealization gives a picture of the victim in question, and
correspondingly the guilty party, which is out of kilter with messed up social realities. Victims
are not in every case good and the offenders always wrong. The ideal victim speaks to a
reflection of what it is to be a victim (pg. 23). Christie (1986) also suggests that a perfect
victim is a person who is not physically fit enough to defend themselves, respected, and not
to be blamed not connected to the offender in any way makes it for them to be the perfect
victim (pg. 26).
Vulnerability seems to have a fairly fluctuated history when considered in connection to
criminal victimization. The idea has rarely been investigated in its own right, its importance
and application mostly considered in respect to the fear of crime as quoted by Hale (1996).
Relating towards victims and vulnerability in the criminal justice system in previous research
and today's society, this essay will give a summary and a descriptive overview about victims
and vulnerability a close examination on how social conditions can be explained by which we
have come to consider these two concepts. This essay aims to build up an argument that
demonstrates how victimization and vulnerability developed to serve political and economic
interests.
The first chapter argues that due to lack of evidence on previous research, there was a little
amount of attention spent addressing victimization among groups that are more prone to
such as young, elderly, economically disadvantaged and so on. It will be contended that this
is a direct result of debates and policies around victims and vulnerability are neither
unbiased nor independent from more extensive ideological and economic interests. Analysis
of this interest is utilized to reconsider what is implied by the ‘ideal and perfect’ victim, a
concept of vulnerability and the measure of crime (Christie, 1986, pg. 21). Spalek (2006)
suggest that the perfect victim has been comprehended as the deserving victim by ideas of
the kind of victim that evokes our sympathies and victim services are justified (pg. 200).
Christie (1986) argues that this idealization gives a picture of the victim in question, and
correspondingly the guilty party, which is out of kilter with messed up social realities. Victims
are not in every case good and the offenders always wrong. The ideal victim speaks to a
reflection of what it is to be a victim (pg. 23). Christie (1986) also suggests that a perfect
victim is a person who is not physically fit enough to defend themselves, respected, and not
to be blamed not connected to the offender in any way makes it for them to be the perfect
victim (pg. 26).
Vulnerability seems to have a fairly fluctuated history when considered in connection to
criminal victimization. The idea has rarely been investigated in its own right, its importance
and application mostly considered in respect to the fear of crime as quoted by Hale (1996).
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