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This 3-page paper discusses the concept of victim precipitation, what it is, and whether it is valid. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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asking for it, look at the way she was dressed," or "if she was dumb enough to jog in Central Park at that time of night, she certainly deserves what
shes received" are common comments behind victim precipitation, also know as "blame the victim" theory. But is there something to victim precipitation? Why is it such a controversial topic?
To answer this question, it might first be a good idea to define what, exactly, victim precipitation is.
The concept of "victim," itself, dates back to ancient civilizations, with the original meaning involved in the idea of a scapegoat or sacrifice -- namely, the "casting
out of a person or animal to satisfy a deity or hierarchy" (OConnor, 2004). But as centuries passed, "victim" had different meanings -- studies in the 1940s considered that victims
were "hapless dupes" who ended up causing their own problems, which was thus termed "victim precipitation" (OConnor, 2004). This goes back to the whole concept of "she was asking for
it, by the way she was dressed" or "if you leave your house unlocked in this neighborhood, youre begging to be robbed."
But during the 1980s, the concept of victimology and victim precipitation was attacked, especially in cases of rape, by feminists (OConnor, 2004).
But studies, from the 1940s, tend to introduce the idea that there are victim "types," who tend to make themselves better targets for crime than others (OConnor, 2004).
The depressive types, for example, who are unsuspecting, are easy targets, as are the "greedy types" who are duped (OConnor, 2004). Then there is
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