Victim Precipitation: An Outdated Construct or an Important Forensic Consideration?

Petherick, Wayne; Kannan, Arathi; Brooks, Nathan

doi:10.1080/24732850.2020.1850087

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“…For a long time, risk assessments have relied mainly on unstructured professional judgments. Several studies, however, demonstrated that risk assessments based on unstructured professional judgments had less predictive accuracy than actuarial tools and SPJ approaches (Petherick et al, 2021; Taxman et al, 2020). As a result, the focus in research and practice has shifted away from relying only on unstructured professional judgments toward actuarial tools and SPJ approaches.…”

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Assessing the Risk of Repeat Victimization Using Structured and Unstructured Police Information

Geurts

Raaijmakers

Delsing

et al. 2021

Crime & Delinquency

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Following the EU Victim Directive, Dutch police officers are obliged to assess a victim’s vulnerability to repeat victimization. This study explored the utility of unstructured police information for the prediction of repeat victimization, as well as its incremental value over and above structured police information. Police records over a period of 6 years were retrieved for a sample of 116,680 victims. Unstructured information was transformed into numeric features using count-vector and TF/IDF methods. Classification models were built using decision tree and random forest models. AUC values indicate that a combination of structured and unstructured police information could be used to correctly classify a majority of repeat and non-repeat victims.

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Section: Risk Assessment In the Police Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Risk of Repeat Victimization Using Structured and Unstructured Police Information

Geurts

Raaijmakers

Delsing

et al. 2021

Crime & Delinquency

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“…Provocatively dressed women receive more blame for their sexual assault by both men and women despite such blame being rooted in rape myths (e.g., “What was she wearing?”, Workman & Freeburg, 1999). When considering a perspective of victim precipitation (Petherick, Kannan & Brooks, 2021), this attribution could represent an erroneous belief that women's sexually receptive appearance would have encouraged the commission of the assault (i.e., “She was asking for it”). These ancestrally derived judgments could lead perceivers to stigmatize sexual assault victims who wore red during the assault, impeding fair treatment under the law (see Brown, Rodriguez, Gretak & Berry, 2017).…”

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Was she wearing red? The function of victim‐blaming in women's intrasexual competition

Brown

Burnett

Boykin

2022

Scandinavian J Psychology

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Previous research indicates that women frequently use red clothing to signal their sexual receptivity, with men and women both recognizing this as a reliable cue to such receptivity. Nonetheless, receptivity cues can inform perceptions of women's culpability for experiencing sexual assault. Thus, women experiencing sexual assault could become more of a target for victim‐blaming if assaulted while wearing red. Such victim‐blaming could be especially apparent especially among those who believe the world is just. The current study presented a sexual assault vignette to American undergraduates (155 women, 66 men) describing a woman wearing either red or green whom participants evaluated for the degree of culpability she has for the assault. Results indicated that the red‐wearing target was viewed as more culpable for the assault, particularly for women with heightened just‐world beliefs. We frame results from an evolutionary framework considering victim‐blaming as part of women's intrasexual competition.

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Assessment and management of the risk factors of domestic violence

Butorac,

Kikic

2024

Temida

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This paper aims to provide a brief overview of the results of the analysis of domestic violence reported to the police in Croatia and the Sisak-Moslavina County for the period 2018-2022, with emphasis on the socio-demographic characteristics of perpetrators and victims, and with special reference to the analysis of the most common risk factors for the repetition of these punishable acts in the urban and rural areas of the Sisak-Moslavina Police Directorate for one year, i.e. six months before and six months after the mandatory application of the Family violence risk assessment tool for repeated violence (from May 1, 2022, to April 30, 2023). Research findings show that psychological violence prevails, and to a slightly lesser extent, physical violence is represented. A significant criminogenic factor is the excessive use of alcohol. Violence is increasingly directed towards children, the elderly and people with disability. The risk factors analysis for repeated domestic violence indicates that the risk indicators in the observed cases are not established or are marked as unknown in the majority of cases. If they are established, they refer exclusively to the risk of repeating physical violence mostly in the urban area. Adequate attention should be given to the fact that risks for sexual abuse are almost completely absent or found to be non-existent.

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Victim Precipitation: An Outdated Construct or an Important Forensic Consideration?

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Assessing the Risk of Repeat Victimization Using Structured and Unstructured Police Information

Assessing the Risk of Repeat Victimization Using Structured and Unstructured Police Information

Was she wearing red? The function of victim‐blaming in women's intrasexual competition

Assessment and management of the risk factors of domestic violence

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