Crime And The Victims Of Crime

Meyer, Castro-Schilo, and Aguilar-Gaxiola (2014) found that lower socioeconomic status resulted in higher fears about safety due to the necessity of living in neighborhoods with higher crime rates. Fear about the safety led to lower levels of activity and subsequently

There are several ways that fear of crime has a relationship with violence. In many communities have experience higher fear of crime levels? Franklin (2009) in his current research he tested the vulnerability of female and male to indicated if fear of crime was increase by age. In his finding this facts are significant since there is a higher level among age for males while females tend to reduce fear. Age also plays a big role when fear of crime is concern in the communities.

There is a plethora of crime related movies, TV shows, video games, etc. Violent portrayals of crime are everywhere. As most Americans do not have any personal experience with the criminal justice system, public knowledge of how it operates comes mostly from the media. Dowler (2003) did a study on the relationship between consumption of such media and fear of being victimized by crime. He found that there is, in fact, a relationship and people who consume more of this media are more afraid of crime. “Regular viewers of crime shows are more likely to fear or worry about crime. Similarly, regular crime drama viewers are more likely to hold negative attitudes toward police effectiveness.” (Dowler,

According the to the authors, measuring the relationship between where people live and the fear of crime is one approach to specifying the race-specific crime threat hypothesis. Another method was to measure directly the extent to which people associate crime with blacks. People used to support their data were adults 18 years of age and older, 56.5 percent female 79.8 percent white, 11.4 percent black and 7.5 percent Hispanic. 44 percent of the sample had graduated from college. The median age was 46

Everyone is susceptible to crime, there is not one person living who has not committed a crime whether it is intentionally or not. From the very minor crimes like drinking under age; to much more serious crimes like murder people are guilty of it. Age plays a major role in all of this, the older you are the less likely you are to commit a crime; but the younger you are; say mid teens to young adulthood, the more likely it is that one is to commit a crime. But for those who get into the life of crime at an earlier age the easier it is to help save them. At a younger age young adults commit less serious crimes, such as drinking under age, trespassing, theft,

The fear of crime of crime a powerful thing that most people feel at some point in their life whether they are watching TV, listening to the radio or possibly reading the newspaper or even speaking to a friend. The fear as an emotional reaction characterized by a sense of danger and anxiety. To create fear of crime, the fear must be elicited by perceived cues in the environment that relate to some aspect of crime for the person. A very common fear related to crime is the fear of gun violence and the gun controls that come along with it. The different gun laws that are provided bring a great fear to people in different ways because of the inconsistency that it comes with. Gun related fear can come in two different forms. One fear

Victimology, or the study of victims, especially crime victims, has created new categories of victims that had not been previously noted. What are typically known as “street crimes”, such as rape, robbery, murder, and assault, have been identified as crimes since the biblical era, and the victims of such crimes have long been identifiable (Karmen, 2013). It has been the advances in the field of Victimology, and the questions which have been asked, that have identified new types of crime, and with these new crimes, come new types of victims. As social mores change, and new issues emerge, new categories of crime victims will be identified, and each new group of victims will present a new group of issues, which will need to be addressed. As these new groups of victims are identifies, victimologist will be tasked with asking the questions needed, so that the process of how these groups became victims, and be identified, and studied, in hopes of preventing future victimization.

The article, Young, Poor, Urban Dwellers Most Likely to Become Crime Victims by Jim Norman is about a statistical data on the most common victims of crime consisting theft, vandalism, burglary, sexual assault, etc. It seems very logical for the young adults to fall under this particular category because they have less experience and to those who commit those crimes would see the inexperience to be a huge vulnerability. As well with the poor because they live in environments that make it easier for the criminals to commit crimes. The same goes for the urban dwellers because in a city so populated most criminals think that they would have a higher chance of getting away punishment free. This article backs up the logic and provides tangible

Stereotyping such events of who is more likely to cause a crime is because it is who in society some people think are deviant. This book shows both sides of an issue which shows two viewpoints of someone

Violent victimization and hooking up among strangers may be two separate and independent issues, but they have areas and aspects that have similarities. However, it is imperative to understand these two aspects are common in the current societies and communities, and changing ideas and perspectives in the world has propagated them. Shaffer and Ruback (2002) suggest that violent victimization, as an independent aspect, is a feature found among younger people in the community, and further, can be classified in intensity among various aspects such as age, gender, race, and to some extent, the level and extent of physical development. These authors find that some people are more at risk of violent victimizations than others. Additionally, the authors

One of the social reactions to crime that most interests criminologists is public fear of victimization. Though less tangible than some reactions to crime fear of crime exemplifies the enormous multiplier effect that attaches to criminal victimization. Whereas a single serious crime in a neighborhood (e.g., a rape)may have but one direct victim, news of the crime may provoke fear among hundreds if not thousands of persons who learn of the event through social networks or the mass media. In fact, only a small proportion of Americans will actually become victims of serious crime each year, but the number who experience fear of victimization is by no means so small These indirect victims of crime are too often overlooked

Being greater that the actual level of crime as older people are least likely of all demographic groups to experiencing victictimization may be attributed to the fact that the elderly are not to be seen on the busy street on Friday night as most of young people, therefore they less likely to become victims. Suggested that both vulnerabilities elderly may become the foundation of the fear of crime. Drawings criminal activity such as robbery of physical attack, the elderly are ore likely to go through serious physical injuries which in effect may lead to helplessness and dependency which they may fear more than the crime itself., that can have an effect on the quality of life of elderly. It has been hypothesized that if the incident of attack

However, Gross and Aday were not able to conclude if the fear of crime was cultivated by local television. The authors note that criminal activity tends to be reported more on local television and could be the reason for many individuals perceiving that crime is a problem. Gross and Aday conclude that personal experience of criminal activity does not relate to agenda setting. This is possibly due to the individual already having a negative experience that has potentially influenced their point of view going forward. When it came to how neighborhoods played into this, they were able to conclude that those who live in areas with a higher crime rate were less likely to be fearful. From this, Gross and Aday were able to conclude that the personal experience of an individual plays a more important role into their perception of the reality of crime rates rather than local

‘The overall fear of crime has increased over the last two decades due to populist(democratic) , and not evidence based, attempts to reduce crime.’ Critically discuss this statement.

Fear, in this topic, can be defined as an anticipation of victimization, rather than fear of an actual victimization. This type of fear relates to how vulnerable a person feels. In his article, Fear of crime: A review of the literature, Hale suggests that the mass media frequently create