Racial Harassment and the Process of Victimization

Bibliographic Data

ID8401550
AuthorsBenjamin Bowling (Home Office, corresponding author)
Year1993
Volume33
Issue2
Pages231-250
Publication date1993-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048299
OpenAlexW2341243253
LanguageEN
Citations received50
References cited3

Victimization surveys, like crime statistics and the criminal law, tend to treat racial harassment and other forms of crime as though they were static events or incidents. Racial victimization, however, does not occur in an instant and is more dynamic and complex than the notion of a ‘racial incident’ can imply. Events-oriented criminological research has yet to capture the experience of repeated or systematic victimization; the continuity of violence, threat, and intimidation; or the complex relationships among all the social actors involved. It is argued that if racial harassment and other forms of crime are to be described and explained adequately and controlled effectively, they should be conceptualized as processes set in geographical, social, historical, and political context. Surveys should be complemented by other methods of enquiry to enable an examination of the social processes which give rise to criminal incidents

Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Geography · Harassment · Intimidation · Medical emergency · Poison control · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Crime, Deviance, and Social Control · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology · Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and Political Violence

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