Victimization on College Campus CAN YOU HAVE THIS DONE TODAY???!!!!

I’ve had the pleasure of studying and breaking down a very sensitive topic and subject that involves every living creation on planet earth. No one wants to be a victim but every so often many of us cannot avoid the coincident of being a victim. Whether it’s in your neighborhood, your home, school, super marker, family, relationship, or driving downs a road toward your destination. You may ask what makes a victim, a victim is a person or persons who suffers direct or threatened physical, psychological, or financial harm as a result of the commission or attempted commission of a crime or delinquent act. Once a person becomes a victim in the process they are consider being victimized which consist of the steps and the role the victims play in the event lead up to one’s own victimization that involves the relationships between victims and offender, the interaction between victims and the justice system and society.

What makes this topic so sensitive is the notion that victims can contribute to their own victimization by measuring crime; suggesting that the convergence in space and time of motivated offenders with the goal of committing crimes against suitable targets in the absence of capable guardian. To better understand these theories I chose to use “Rape on College Campus” and the dark figures and hidden agendas of these perpetrators. A victimologist is someone who studies victims and the process of criminal victimization and focus more so on the victim and less on the offender. I argue that offenders of rape victims are products of social learning theory that suggest that all behavior is learned and learning includes the acquisition of norms, values, and patterns of behavior conducive to crime.

Instead of Lawerence Cohen and Marcus Felson 1970’s theory on Routine Activities that examines the interaction of motivated offenders, capable guardians, and suitable targets as an explanation for crime that suggest that an individual’s everyday activities contribute significantly to the likelihood of his or her criminal victimization, I counteract this notion. In relation to “Rape on College Campus” rape is often misunderstood, misrepresented or distorted. Rape is a type of sexual assault usually involving sexual intercourse or other forms of sexual penetration carried out against a person without that person's consent. Students who live on campus are rightfully entitled to assume that they are protected and had made a choice of security especially if little to no attention about rape is reported about that particular University. Students pertaining male and female, semester after semester pick a schedule and routine that works perfectly for them. College campus is full of routined professional in the making. For about a 15 weeks period students assume that they will attend school, gain an education, meet new people, network and hopefully find a decent job, and a prosperous life. But one fact is ignored and that is cultural deviance which states that conformity to the prevailing cultural norms of lower class society could cause crime; lower subculture has a unique set of values and beliefs, which are invariably in conflict with conventional social norms.

I disagree that student who visit a college and stays in a dorm and occasionally parties and drinks contributes to their victimization. An offender on a college campus is not a victim to a victim because they had the opportunity; he’s the offender and a product of either learned or mental issues. For an example growing up in n sexist environment, studies prove that rapist was more sexually aroused by audiotape depiction of rape (Bernat, Calhoun & Adam 1990). Sexist environments relates to or characterized by prejudice, stereotyping or discrimination typically against women on the basis of sex, assuming if a woman is left without protection and appear defenseless and weak that she’s an easy target and asked or provoked the perpetrator to victimize him or her. I’m almost positive no women or man would provoke such a traumatic offense to themselves not even toward an enemy.

Micheal j. Hindelang, Micheal R. Gottfredson, and James Garofalo 1970 made some valid points about one’s lifestyle, a theory that suggest that certain lifestyles favor victimization because they offer more opportunities for it, illustrating that any contribution made by the victim to the criminal event, especially one that led to its ignition is called victim precipitation. Even though they made some good points about repetitive, patterned, regular, and recurrent events that people engage in on an everyday basis associated with exposure to people, places, and time put persons at a higher risk. This theory suggest that if I frequently get (trashed) drunk at a college party every weekend in or around campus that I am asking for abuse. If people wear flashy jewelry and a pair of nice sneakers they’re asking to be victimized, also suggesting that if I leave a fancy bag in my seat of my car, I’m asking to be victimized. I beg to differ! I advise that this behavior is learned and based on the reaction of society, the community and authority that plays a major part in the reoccurring events. For an example if I started as a child watching movies when the beautiful woman is always victim and is always sexually chastised, then the norm evolves. If a music video and or song raps about seducing women whether she’s drunk, alone, uneducated, or lack self-esteem than the general understanding of women would remain the same as it continues to be praised and popularized. Examples of rape songs that popularized rape are Robin Thick “I know you want it” or Rick Ross “slipped molly in her champion, she ain’t even know it, took her home and enjoyed that, she ain;t even know it”. Jamie Foxx “blame it on the alcohol”.