NCJ Number
93502
Journal
Victimology Volume: 8 Issue: 3-4 Dated: (1983) Pages: 80-90
Date Published
1983
Length
11 pages
Annotation
A sensitizing theoretical perspective involving the role social control may unintentionally play in criminal victimization is offered.
Abstract
Alternatives to the familiar model wherein the interaction of offenders and victims produces an offense and then a social control response are suggested. For example, some undercover police practices involve anticipatory social control which engenders offenders and/or victims. Ways in which such social control may contribute to victimization include: generation of a market; the creation of collateral offenses; exploitation of an undercover opportunity structure; generation of a motive or idea for the crime; and the provision of a scarce skill or resource. The understanding of victimization can be enhanced by developing a social control precipitated perspective, alongside of, and integrated with, the traditional victim-precipitated perspective. (Author abstract)