Using Victim-Blaming To Justify Abuse Or Social Injustice

Given these facts, one can conclude that based on today’s events, this theory is both tragic but yet there is improvement. It is tragic because, white society still has that negative and stereotypical view of black people being ignorant, criminals and self degrading. For example, there are tendencies of authorities and the media in general to take the conception of black criminality to demonize young black men and racial profile them. Blacks are always put in a negative light because of history, so the mindset of white people will never change. As far as the improvement, like today, the black community is still dragged in the same way that the Lynch's doctrine

Victimology draws together academics, activists, and policymakers from a variety of backgrounds and identifies three main victimological perspectives. Positivist victimology dates back to the emergence of victimology as a discipline in the 1940s. It looks to understand the process of victimisation and why people become victims of crime by examining the relationship between the victim and offender through an agency lens. Newburn (2013) identifies positivists such as Miers (1989) who see victimisation as being causal in nature and identify three key features:

After reading, "The Ethics of Living Jim Crow Laws I've learned more in depth scenarios about the treatment of Blacks and how the Whites made it to where Blacks were very fearful of them. Richard Wright explains each memory of the abuse from Whites and the lesson that was behind it. For instance, when RIchard was working at his first job and Morrie lied to Pease stating that Richard called him Pease. This was one of the ultimate forms of disrespect from a Negro to a white man. Richard was at a shocking space during this moment he didn't want to say that Morrie was lying even though he was, but he also didn't want to have to live with the consequences of pleading guilty to uttering the worst insult. The fact still remain the same that which

When we are younger we used to get our brother or sister and pick on another sibling. When mom or dad comes to yell at the person who started it we tend to pin it on someone else or you are the person who gets left with all the punishment. At one point in our lives we were blamed for something we didn't do or we were the person that pushed it onto someone else. Arthur Miller expresses a lot of scapegoating or being the scapegoat in The Crucible.

Cultural racism uses the “they don’t have it altogether” statement (39). “The essence of the American version of this frame is “blaming the victim,” arguing that minorities’ standing is a product of their lack of effort, loose family organization, and inappropriate values,” stated Bonilla-Silva (40). Kara a MU student states, “black people that I’ve met…I don’t want to say waiting for a handout, but to some extent, that’s kind of what I’m like hinting at,” when asked what she thought about “blacks lacking motivation” (40). Other students used a kinder response to the above question leading to a family structure issue, a lack of education, and financially that blacks had to get a job at an earlier age than whites (41). Cultural racism is the basis of most racism today. The blame game is used in all situations. People’s egos don’t like to

According to Hersher, Blacks are the victims of wrongly accused cases. It says that it was at a record high last year with 166 people being wrongly convicted. It suggests that there is no standard for convicted people of crimes and that hurts blacks chances of being innocent. It says that a majority of the wrongly convicted people were African even though Africans only make up 13 percent of the population.

This explanation of inequality places the blame on the victim, attributing status to a culture’s “lack of effort, loose family organization, and inappropriate values.” (40). Finally, Bonilla-Silva identifies the minimization of racism as the last framework in the colorblind ideology. This frame posits that minorities aren’t affected by racism anymore; racism is “better now than in the past.” (29). Bonilla-Silva asserts that whites use these frames both separately and collectively as a way of justifying turning their backs on the realities of racial inequality.

In any situation a black person can be innocent but will remain guilty until there is enough evidence to prove that they are free of charge. Not only that but “She like most everyone wants me to feel guilty. Wants me to show some contrition, to break down in tears, to save the state some money and her embarrassment of sharing my blackness.” (Beatty 17) The author shows that within internalizing stereotyping he as a black man is expected to feel as if he is guilty, and he supposed to give into the courts and let them take advantage of him. But he doesn’t “that omnipresent guilt that’s as black as fast-food apple pie and prison basketball is finally gone, and it feels almost white to be unburdened from the racial shame…” This supports the claim that internalizing stereotyping can be help and harmful with in its implications and you have a choice to internalize

The discrimination women have endured for thousands of years has led our society to the normalization of the mistreatment of women. One of the most despicable injustices women undergo is being held responsible for the mistakes of a man. Victim blaming is the act in which a victim of a crime or mishap is found accountable for the unethical conduct inflicted against them. Although Margaret Atwood wrote her reality based novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, in the 1980’s, the issue of victim blaming remains an issue in our current society as it is in the novel.

A person who experiences a traumatic event may be expected to experience a range of psychological effects, and, for many years, it was assumed that these psychological effects would be the same regardless of the cause of the injury. However, a growing body of knowledge is demonstrating that the impact of criminal victimization is different than the impact of other types of injuries because the intent element makes a difference in how the victim perceives the harm. In addition, victims of different crimes may respond differently to victimization. The psychological effects of victimization are important because they can help guide the criminal justice system for how to interact with victims and how to make the process more victim-appropriate. For example, victims of violent crimes, like sexual assaults, may benefit more from a victim-centered criminal justice approach than victims of other types of crimes (Resick, 1987). However, one of the problems with the traditional approach to victimology is that it has distinguished between different groups of victims. Emerging research suggest that victim needs are similar across the entire spectrum of crime, particularly the victims' needs for information about the crime and the needs for financial restitution to make them whole (ten Boom & Kuijpers, 2012).

Also, “Feminist researchers have criticised the above approaches, suggesting that examining victims’ behaviour for its role in the perpetration of a crime may constitute blaming the victim, thereby holding them responsible for their plight.” (Spalek, B 2006). Feminist would also criticize the way in which the positivist approach uses victim perception to address rape victims. They would argue that this leads to victim blaming and lack of trust within the criminal justice system, this could then results in secondary victimisation.

The term is often related with negative meanings of powerlessness, passivity, and some victims could be even perceived as inferiors. It is also important to note that when the word ‘victim’ is gendered, it is biased towards the female sex. Therefore, assumptions that females are passive and weak also coincide with the assumptions of victims. The alternative term ‘survivor’ is sometimes preferred, particularly by feminists, as it places emphasis on their strength and the severity of the experience with crime. In addition, groups may also be victims; usually involving a type of hate crime such as racism or homophobia.

Theories of victimization essentially does something morally unpopular, by discussing how the victim caused their own victimization. Identified below are four theories of victimizations and examples of both strength and weakness of each. The goal for this paper is to briefly define at the four theories in order to grasp a better understanding of how individuals can lessen the opportunity to become a victim of a crime.

The history of victimology travels further back in time than most would realize. The concept of the victim emerged from the many attempts of many societies and peoples to explain both the reasons behind victimization and the appropriate action to be taken as a result of it (Burgess et al., 2013). As a concept, it can be difficult to define victimology, since each individual defines the term differently. According to the text utilized for this class, victimology is defined as being the study of the victim, including the offender and society. It is also seen as being a social-structural way of viewing the relationships between crime and the law as well as the criminal and the victim (Burgess et al, 2013)..

Yet, the most significant flaw in this essay can be seen through the author’s simplistic view of the scope of racial injustice. Remarkably, the author only refers to white privilege in terms of its impact on what she calls “the problems facing Black America.” She fails to acknowledge or perhaps has no insight that white privilege involves the preference for ‘whiteness’ over all persons of color. Every non-white group is impacted by individual and institutional racism. Every non-white group grows up with the knowledge that their white peers have certain automatic privileges. Every child of color has to learn to navigate through the floodwaters of racism