Founded in the 1970s and significantly influenced by radical feminism, feminist victimology primarily recognises victimisation as the product of unequal power relations, sexism, and other types of prejudice within the law and Criminal Justice System. ... For example, feminist victimology research has shown that females are more likely to be the victims of certain types of crimes, such as domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment, and that the perpetrators of these crimes are more likely to be men. ... (Walklate, 2008) Feminist victimology has also offered an explanation of the r...

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