Deck 5: Victim and Offender Characteristics

Question 1

Provide an outline of where different types of crimes take place.

Answer 1

Responses could include:
-Crime events, offenders and victims are unevenly distributed across space
-Police record data on where crimes take place
-2016 police data shows 70% of sexual assaults took place in a residential location
-For robbery, 16% occurred in a residential location compared to 84% in a community or other location
-Assaults frequently occur near railway stations/lines, highway intersections
-Break and enters are concentrated in residential areas

Question 2

What are the characteristics of crime victims?

Answer 2

Answers might include:
-Young (under 25 years)
-Male
-Over representation by Indigenous people
-Unemployed/low income earners
-Low socio-economic status

Question 3

In which crimes are women vastly over-represented as victims?

A)Assault
B)Sexual assault
C)Homicide
D)Prostitution

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Crimes of robbery are more likely to have an offender which is known by the victim than crimes of assault.

Question 5

Only a minority of offenders get caught and only a minority go to jail.

Question 6

Many victims are victimised repeatedly.Discuss explanations for repeat victimisation.Use examples to support your discussion.

Question 7

Many crimes are interclass and interracial, discuss why this is so.

Question 8

Discuss the characteristics of male and female offenders in Australia.

Question 9

Provide an account of why Indigenous people are overrepresented in the criminal justice system.

Question 10

Class is an important correlate of crime.Discuss.

Question 11

In which age group does most offending occur?

A)Before adolescence
B)Middle to late adolescence
C)Adulthood
D)Elderly

Question 12

Poverty and economic need can be linked to a concentrated area of crime.

Question 13

The highest rates of offending occur between 15 and 19 years of age.What are some of the reasons for this?