1. Feminism, Positivism, and Radical Victimology
(Barberet, 2010) In essence, feminist victimology concentrates on the social construction of gender, and heavily focuses upon "uncovering, assessing and responding to the victimisation of women and, in particular, men's violence against women" (Newburn, 2013, pp. 322). Subsequently, the field of feminist victimology includes women in what has traditionally been male-dominated research. ... Moreover, it became evident that women were fundamentally presumed guilty until proven innocent. ... Therefore, despite its use of quantitative and empirical research, this perspective of vict...
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