Victim Defending Examples

According to Karmen (2016) victim-defending is “a perspective that denies that an injured party should be held partly responsible for what happened; the belief that the blame falls solely on the offender, or the social system, or both” (p. 501). Thus, challenges whether it is just to hold the victim liable for his or her own injuries or losses. An example of a white collar crime is identity theft and a property crime is cell phone.

Thieves can use a range of methods to get information for fraud. One example is income tax return. There are many different ways that innocent victims have suffered when impostors steal their federal tax refunds, through no fault of their own; such as sending in a tax return on paper as opposed to filing electronically. Filing false tax returns using the identifications of previous clients of a tax preparation business, this is done by stealing the files of tax clients, and then using the information to file fraudulent returns and claims for refund. Victim defender argue that a victim of identity theft have not done anything wrong.

It on the news every day some cell phone robberies are on the rise. Men and women have been knocked down all for their Smartphone. There Smartphone are snatched out of their hands. The offender just snatched the phone out of their hand, and kept running. Just by powering it off, thieves can prevent your phone from being tracked, and with basic technology they can wipe data from the phone and resell it for as much as a thousand dollars. Victim-defending maintains that most of the individuals whom were robbed of their phones did nothing