Exam 3: Victims and Victimization

Not being able to find a job, Nicole List becomes increasingly frustrated as she visits her unemployment office each month. On Nicole's most recent visit, she became verbally abusive and threatening to the unemployment representative. Continuing her abusive tirade, Nicole stood up and leaned over the representative's desk. In fear and frustration, the unemployment representative hit Nicole with a stapler that was on the desk. Nicole's victimization in this case might be termed _____ precipitation.

Places containing elevated numbers of motivated offenders result in an elevated chance of being victimized. Such places are termed:

College-aged women's risk of sexual assault is higher than that of the general population.

Criminologists who focus their attention on victims of crime refer to themselves as _________.

Target ______________ explains that some characteristics increase risk because they arouse anger, jealousy, or destructive impulses in potential offenders.

The main concept of lifestyle theory is that something in the victim's lifestyle, rather than a random occurrence, is responsible for the victimization.

Due to the influence of victims' rights advocates, every state now has a legal set of victims' rights in its code of law . Identify the rights legally afforded victims within these ;laws.

Victim impact information/victim impact statements are part of which act?

Explain what is meant by the ecology of victimization, especially as it applies to school victimization.

Discuss lifestyle theory and how it increases one's risk of being victimized. Include in your response how the variables of age and marital status contribute to lifestyle theory.

There are now roughly 23,000 victim-witness assistance programs in the United States.

In 1984, the federal government created the ______________________, which grants money to state compensation boards derived from fines and penalties imposed on offenders.

Hearing about a crime, even if untrue, helps increase __________________ fear among individuals.

The NCVS indicates that rural, white homes in the West are the most likely to contain crime victims or to be the target of theft offenses, such as burglary or larceny.

According to routine activities theory, homes that contained easily sellable objects such as laptop computers, stereos, and television sets would be classified as:

Teenage males, drug users, and the unemployed are most likely to commit crime.

When a physical weakness or psychological distress renders a victim incapable of resisting or deterring crime, this is referred to as _____________________.

Smaller households in less populated areas have a lower victimization risk.

In routine activities theory, police and homeowners would be an example of:

Deviant place theory states that criminals place themselves in situations of violent crime on purpose because of a desire to obtain goods or services that they could not obtain legally.