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Re: forensic linguistics
Date: 2011-04-01 03:00 pm (UTC)"One of the most controversial sub-topics within the broader topic is victim proneness. The concept of victim proneness is a "highly moralistic way of assigning guilt" to the victim of a crime, also known as victim blaming.[3] One theory, the environmental theory, posits that the location and context of the crime gets the victim of the crime and the perpetrator of that crime together."
"Victim facilitation, another controversial sub-topic, but a more accepted theory than victim blaming, finds its roots in the writings of criminologists Marvin Wolfgang. The choice to use victim facilitation as opposed to “victim blaming” or some other term is that victim facilitation is not blaming the victim, but rather the interactions of the victim that make he/she vulnerable to a crime."
Neither chapter talks about rape explicitely, but rape is one crime where both victim blaming and accusations of victim blaming are most prevalent. Which makes applying victimology to rape controversial in and of itself.