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This paper will be looking at critical and positivist victimology and how the two perspectives can be seen to differ in their theoretical approach to understanding victimisation. The differences in the ways
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What is critical victimology and how does it differ from positivist victimology? This paper will be looking at critical and positivist victimology and how the two perspectives can be seen to differ in their theoretical approach to understanding victimisation. The differences in the ways the two perspectives apply their theory will also be considered. The main aspects of positivism will be explored and how its insufficiencies led to the emergence of critical victimology as an alternative way of understanding victimisation and how, to a certain extent, they compliment each other. Positivist victimology can be dated back to the emergence of the discipline of victimology itself and hence those considered to be the founders of the discipline were positivists themselves. The term 'positivist' victimology was first used in relation to a range of work by Miers (1989) and was defined by him as "...the identification of factors which contribute to a non random...
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