Study guides for Chapter 3: Victims and Victimization

1. Where and when do most victimizations take place?

2. What time of day? What time of year? What is the effect of weather?

3. Can you explain the “just-world hypothesis?”

4. What fad diagnosis was associated with Satanic panics in the 1980s?

5. Are those already victimized more or less likely to suffer victimization in the future?

6. Who was William Ryan? What was his famous book? What was its main point?

7. What does the proximity hypothesis argue? How about the propinquity hypothesis?

8. What characteristics are most typical of those most likely to be victimized?

9. What common conflicts took place within the victims’ rights movement?

10. Are the elderly the most likely to be victimized? Explain.

11. Who is victimized most, males or females? Married, never married, or divorced persons?

12. High income people are particularly likely to be victims. True or false?

13. Can you explain and identify a “spurious correlation?”

14. Which race or ethnic group has the highest victimization rate?