Non Ideal Victims

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Abstract
A child can be victimized for various reasons and it can happen to anyone’s child. Chapter one of the book focuses on child victimology. The author goes into detail and provides an explanation for why some children become victims of crime. The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast an Ideal-victim from a non-ideal victim. Secondly, I’ll demonstrate the difference and provide a briefed description of a non- ideal victim.

Keywords: (victimology, ideal-victim, non-ideal victim)

Who is the Ideal -Victim or Non-Ideal Victim?
The term ideal-victim came from the works of Nils Christie and according to him this victim is a person or a category of individuals that when hit by a crime they are given the complete …show more content…

They’ re basically victims of people that they already know because of their lifestyle such as frequent visits to the same clubs, the amount of alcohol consumption, and more (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). It is said that this people are victimized because of their demographics, they are bystanders, witnesses, and that a violent person becomes victim of violence (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). Shapiro and Maras (2015) indicated that a non-ideal victim can be due to miscarriages of justice, human trafficking, police brutality, and even victims with prior criminal records (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). Research says that if those individual are accepted as victims then society would be acknowledging that there is something wrong with the Criminal Justice system (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). This would include victims who have been assaulted or rape in prisons, victims of intimate partner relationships, rape, physical trauma, and victims in mental hospitals. One of the differences of the two victims is that the ideal victim is recognize by the criminal justice system and the other is not perceive as worthy or deserving of the status (Shapiro & Maras, 2015). One thing that needs to be further look into are children of domestic violence and their involvement with the criminal justice

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