(World Society of Victimology, cited in Goodey 2005, pp.10) Various perspectives of victimology have been put forward since the mid-twentieth century when it first emerged. The main perspectives include; feminist victimology, positivist victimology, radical victimology, and critical victimology. Each of these perspectives offer different theories of victims and crime, some more controversial than others. ... This perspective therefore supports the positivist notion, that like criminality, the cause of victimisation could be beyond victims' control, due to psychological and sociological f...

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The study will be conducted in the light of Conflict, Structural functional and Interactionsit perspectives in order to define and determine the role played by prisons in the rehabilitation of the offenders. ... The sociological conflict perspective views state of clash and struggle between haves and haves-not in all societies and cultures of the world (Turner, 1978:160). ... While elaborating the interactionist theory, the perspective maintains that man's interaction with his social and physical environment determines his action, reaction and individual and collective behavior at large....

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Differential Association Theory is one of several theories in criminology (Sociological Theories of Crime), it has the view that crime arises from society's social structure or organization. ... This theory became instrumental in integrating the view of sociology in the context of criminology[Bur66]. ... This is because they provide an explanation of both lawful and unlawful behavior using the same perspective[Ake77]. ...

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