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Criminologists frequently challenge one another’s commitment to objectivity and neutrality. They argue among themselves over whether a particular theoretical perspective is biased, perhaps in favor of the entrenched legal system and the economic interests it protects, or whether some criminologists are too forgiving of delinquency or others are too punitive toward street crime. The questions of subjectivity, partisanship, and bias arise repeatedly in victimology as well as in criminology. On close inspection, it becomes evident that the field of victimology has its rifts and factions, just as criminology does. At the risk of oversimplifying its history, victimology started off in the 1940s and 1950s with an “antivictim” slant. But a new consensus within victimology that emerged during the early 1970s and has predominated ever since maintains a “provictim” orientation.
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Karmen, A. (1991). The Controversy over Shared Responsibility. In: Sank, D., Caplan, D.I. (eds) To Be a Victim. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5974-4_24
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