Don T Call Me A Survivor

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Introduction
Crimes against the person continue to cause special concern on the part of law enforcement. The aftermath of crime causes the trauma of victimization. Victimization is a reflection of the legality as the predisposition of individual people to become a victim of crime, as well as the inability of society and the state to protect their citizens. Victimization acts as an integral part of crime, which has its own specific parameters and qualitative characteristics, under which these categories are not coincident. Victimization differs from crime as it represents the totality of the processes of becoming victims. In the scientific literature of recent years, there has been an increased attention to the victimization issues about certain …show more content…

It is quite understandable, that the group of personal features and habits cannot turn a woman into a direct cause of criminal assault. However, the psychological portrait has an indirect role through the factors of victimization. The women’s liberation theory is proven in the story of Emilie Morgan “Don’t Call Me a Survivor”, where she tells the truth about being raped for several times during three years. The first rape of Emilie took place when she was 13, and the girl found nothing better to do than never telling about this crime to her parents or other authorities. It is remarkable, that Emilie Morgan did so because the society made her feel guilty for being raped. In the modern world, the victim is more often accused of provoking behavior. Therefore, the girl felt guilty because she could not foresee and control the outcome of the event. As a result, Emilie Morgan suffered from rape for two more times, and only when being a sophomore, she gained some help in the group of women who were also the victims of the rape.
Victimization is realized in a criminal act only when interacting with a victim-crime situation, that is, a combination of factors and conditions of victimization. Everything that relates to the intimate sphere of a person has exceptional significance, as it is the source of the most powerful experiences, from the greatest joy to the most severe humiliation. Among the factors that form victimization from murder and harm to health, it is especially important to distinguish the nature of the relationship between the victim and the

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