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criminology question!!! Describe the factors that a potential offender takes into consideration when selecting a victim or target. How can understanding this process assist an individual in reducing his or her likelihood of becoming a crime victim?
various factor that a potential offenders take into consideration
1. Stride is most important factor.
Potential offenders takes into consideration when people have show exrated stride either abnormlly short or long.They drugged , suffled and lifted their feet unnaturally when they walked non criminal people running smoothly.
Rate: victimized people tend to walk diffrent rate compare non victimized people.usually they walk slower.Their movement lack of deliberateness and puropose.
Fluidity
Jerkiness, raising , and lowering ones center of gravity or wavering from side to side as they moved become apperent victims analyzed .
Victimized has lack of wholeness of body movement .non victimized movement their body from center as a coordinated whole implying strength , balanced and confidence.
posture and gesture
A slumped is indicative of weakness or submissiveness.if someone reluctantly make eye contact can percive as a submissive.These trait imply ideal terget for a predator.
Some when people committed crime , he show more restlessness, nervous and anxiety behaiour .even such kind of abnormality like hypertension , excessive worrying, frequently movement etc are the major symptoms and major factor that a potential offenders take into consideration when selecting a victime.Besides offenders take several serious action on doubtful person to considered the victimization.
step-2
this process assist individual in reducing his or her likelyhood of becoming a crime victim in following way
1. He will become more concious about crucial effect of crime
2. He should inculcate fear about crime. Because a crime people show variious negetive symptoms .ttherefore, he can be surrender which reducing his or her likelyhood becoming crime victim.
3. Many people also prevent himself from various psychological disoder by reducing his or her likelihood become a crime victime.
4. He can develop self awarness skill with infulence of above factor form preventing crime.
5. enhancement knowledge , helps to develop confidence and eliminate fear of crime from mind which is non victim quality .so knowledge can be floourish by influennce this process.
So in this way , a person can understand the process in reducing his or her likelihood of becoming a crime victim.