Victims are viewed as always good or and offenders as bad. Crime reality exists somewhere in the hazy middle. No doubt in my mind that the crime would still occur in many cases regardless of the victim’s actions. If not for the victim’s actions in other cases the crime would not have occurred, at least at that time. Ignoring this is to ignore the reality behind crime which is not an attempt to understand it. Because of this, colleagues and the authors believe that victim precipitation should not be ignored because it is a feature of crime. It is my contention that it should be studied further so that people can develop a better understanding of the types of victim precipitation that exist today. It also helps people understand the factors that contribute to precipitative actions. Being able to understand this is a set farther into truly understanding the context of crime, criminal and victim behavior, and therefore hope to reduce or eliminate (at least certain types) of crime. The following reasons are proposed for not only retaining the theory as a useful construct in the understanding of crime, but also to expand upon it through research of the theoretical base on which it
Victims are viewed as always good or and offenders as bad. Crime reality exists somewhere in the hazy middle. No doubt in my mind that the crime would still occur in many cases regardless of the victim’s actions. If not for the victim’s actions in other cases the crime would not have occurred, at least at that time. Ignoring this is to ignore the reality behind crime which is not an attempt to understand it. Because of this, colleagues and the authors believe that victim precipitation should not be ignored because it is a feature of crime. It is my contention that it should be studied further so that people can develop a better understanding of the types of victim precipitation that exist today. It also helps people understand the factors that contribute to precipitative actions. Being able to understand this is a set farther into truly understanding the context of crime, criminal and victim behavior, and therefore hope to reduce or eliminate (at least certain types) of crime. The following reasons are proposed for not only retaining the theory as a useful construct in the understanding of crime, but also to expand upon it through research of the theoretical base on which it