On the other hand, the elderly become vulnerable to crime victimization due to decreased physical and mental abilities, isolation, dependence on caregivers, and perception that they have resources to be exploited (Victim Connect, 2014).
Given the increased vulnerabilities to and situations resulting in crime victimization, victims sometimes contribute to crime. Victims contribute to crime through placing themselves in situations that enhance their vulnerabilities to being targeted by criminal for illegal activities. Experts in the criminal justice field have argued that victims sometimes contribute to crime through setting up the opportunity for the crime to be carried out. In this case, victims establish the opportunities for the crime to be committed through certain lifestyles and work and leisure patterns/tendencies. Victims' contribution to crime is attributable to their position in the social structure, their social roles, and failure to practice desirable behaviors that minimize opportunities for crime. According to Edgar & O'Donnell (1998), the victim's contribution to crime is either through precipitation or facilitation. This implies that victims contribute to the crime through gaining reputation for the…
The knowledge of the evolution and starting point of the field of Victimology is of utmost worth. Three different ancient epochs describing the Victims' position inside methods of justice were reviewed by some foremost Researchers including Moriarty and Jerin. The Epochs are the Golden Age, the Reemergence of the Victim and the Dark Age. There is a proposition that the Golden Age has been before the time when laws were
They began to outline an issue of the journal which they tentatively called Contemporary Criminology: A Journal of Ideas Predisposed Toward Radical Democratization. It was hoped that the first issue might arrive during the Fall of 1996. About the same time, Sullivan and Tifft also spoke about creating a new association for scholars, activists, and practitioners that would serve as an alternative to the conventional academic criminology and criminal justice