Exam 4: What Is Victimology

Identify Stephen Schafer's seven victim categories.

According to Stephen Schafer (1968), all of the following were classified as having no responsibility except ______ victims.

Behaviors that guard against victimization, such as purchasing a weapon, are referred to as defensive or protective behaviors.

What is Lifestyle Theory?

To be diagnosed with PTSD, the symptoms must be experienced for more than 1 month and must cause significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other functional areas.

______ can result from property losses, time lost from work, pain and suffering, and legal fees.

von Hentig attempted to identify the characteristics of a victim that may effectively serve to influence victimization risk. He argued that crime victims could be placed into 1 of 13 categories, on the basis of the propensity for victimization. Identify five of those categories.

Which of the following is designed to provide victims a chance to meet their offenders in a structured environment?

A common right provided to victims through the criminal justice system is the right to be treated fairly in a way that preserves their ______.

______, or the percentage of persons 5 and older living in a different house from 5 years before, can predict victimization.

All of the following victims are eligible for compensation from the crime victims' fund except ______.

To be diagnosed with ______, a victim must have experienced or witnessed a traumatic event.

Criminologists refer to an individual who fabricates a victimization event as ______.

Victim ______ suggests that that without the victim, the crime would not have occurred.

Victim ______ occurs when a person does something that incites another person to commit an illegal act.

Households earning more than $75,000 per year are more likely to experience victimization than those that earn less than $7,500.

Structural density refers to the percentage of units in structures of five or more units.

According to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), those who reported being ______ had the highest violent victimization rates.

One of the recognized disorders associated with a patterned response to trauma, such as victimization, is referred to as mental illness.

Restrictions that people place on their own behaviors to protect themselves from harm are referred to as defensive behaviors.