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Describe what Psychologists have found out about crime-victim interaction.
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a) Describe what Psychologists have found out about crime-victim interaction. (10) One surprising fact that psychologists have found is that, in general, those members or groups of society that are statistically more vulnerable to be a victim of crime are those who fear it the least, and vice versa. For instance, Hollin (1992) carried out research on fear of crime, in which young men pertained to having the least fear of becoming a victim of personal assault, while the responses of elderly women showed them to be the most fearful. This is a mismatch Empey's (1982) findings, which shows young males, who tend to feel 'invincible' to be the most frequent victims of personal assault, and elderly and apparently 'vulnerable' women to be the least! Empey also concluded that, in general, males, the young and black are statistically more vulnerable than females, the elderly and whites to become a victim...
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