Victimisation

IS SECONDARY VICTIMISATION A NECESSARY EVIL FOR JUSTICE WITHIN CONTEMPORARY CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEMS? This essay will explore the statement that secondary victimisation is a necessary evil In terms of contemporary justice by addressing it through three key lenses, these are Law enforcement agencies, and the court system. WHAT IS RE-VICTIMISATION? Re-victimisation or secondary victimisation has huge prevalence throughout all areas of the contemporary society and example of this comes from the study’s

“Victimisation is defined in the Act as: Treating someone badly because they have done a ‘protected act’ (or because you believe that a person has done or is going to do a protected act).”(Unknown, 2010) In a workplace victimisation is defined as punishing or threatening to punish someone because they asserted their rights under equal opportunity law, made a complaint about someone or refused to do something because it would be discrimination, sexual harassment or victimisation. In this essay I am

Purpose of the study Victimisation of university students has always been a topic that got criminologists’ attention. However, the real issue of students involved in minor criminal offences was avoided as it always seemed to be part of "being at university" habitus. The purpose of the study was to identify the type of offences that undergraduate students commit, how different they are in terms of age/background/sex and the reason for the crime perpetration. As Feldman (2004:2) argued, the abstract

approach to victimology. “The key characteristics of positivist victimology can be described as, the identification of factors which contribute a non-random pattern of their own victimisation, a focus on interpersonal crimes of violence and a concern to identify victims who may have contributed to their own victimisation.”

An ‘ideal victim’ is someone who has played no part in their victimisation by an offender who was wholly responsible for the incident. The public can relate to the ‘ideal victims’ ordeal and although they have been through an awful sometimes incomprehensible experience society views the ‘ideal victim’ “as pure, blameless (hence passive) people against whom an evil act was omitted by a depraved individual” (Spalek, B. 2006 p25). Although most people can relate to an ‘ideal victim’ there is a ‘positivist

differential between the bully and the victim’ (p.1). This meant that the bullies are likely to suffer from a range of problems than the children who are uninvolved. The researcher’s main assumption is to consider victimisation and bullying separately and secondly to consider victimisation and bullying simultaneously to examine the genetics and environmental influences on the covariation between the two. The paper focuses on three groups of children that are involved in

In Cyber Bullying Not as Concerning as Face-to-Face For Kids: Study, Jorge Branco claims, “In a survey of 156 kids who'd suffered both forms of victimisation, almost 60 per cent said traditional bullying was more hurtful.” People who have experienced both types of bullying said that traditional bullying is worse. Usually, when it hasn’t happened to you, you answer differently than someone who had this

end abusing him mentally as well as physically. Mr Murdstone scared Clara and so she rarely showed her love and support towards David. Mr Murdstone was the first male influence in his life, which made him loose confidence in men sue to this victimisation and feet safer in the company of women. Although Cassie wasn't victimised within the family, the family on a whole were victimised but they always stuck together. Alternatively to David, Cassie received a lot of love and support from her family

it in a matter of minutes without being detected. They then pressed a big red button which automatically closed the doors and locked everyone inside the building. This is an example of how media can distort the reality of criminal behaviour. Victimisation in TV crime drama is often seen as ‘non-complicated’ (Surette & Gardiner-Bess, 2014, p. 62), this means these characters are often not as important and receive less attention, compared to the criminals or detectives. This is demonstrated in the

In Victor Frankenstein’s pursuit to discover “the cause of generation and life”, he creates something that becomes the victim of his self-absorption and irrational manner (Segal). Following some insight on the creation of life, scientist Victor Frankenstein decides to take science into his own hands and create a creature out of human cadavers. It is not until the creature comes to life that Victor ponders the perplexing appearance of the creature that is before him. As Victor looks upon the creature