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A 5 page consideration of the factors that motivate predatory criminals and how we can modify our
own behavior to reduce our risks of becoming a victim. This paper points out that in the wild it is the weak, the slow, and the inattentive prey
animals that get eaten. There is a lesson here! To most effectively prevent predatory crime we must change the way we present ourselves to
potential predators. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
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direct assaults on a victim, assaults such as rapes, murders, and muggings. Predators, of course, could not exist without prey. In the wild it is the weak, the
slow, and the inattentive prey animals that get eaten. There is a lesson here! To most effectively prevent predatory crime we must change the way we present ourselves
to potential predators. To suggest that we should work on preventing predatory crime from the level of the victim is not, of course,
any sort of indictment of victim guilt! There is, however, an abhorrent human tendency to blame a victim when a predatory crime is completed against them. Rapes, in
particular, are associated with the tendency to blame the victim. As Goodman (2003) observes in her article "When a Woman Says No" it is our tendency to place
blame on the woman even when she is the victim. We ask: "Did she
wear a tight sweater? Was she a loose woman? Was she in the wrong part of town at the wrong hour? (Goodman, 2003, 124)"
Despite our tendencies to ask such questions, however, we must somehow overcome the predisposition towards blaming the woman when she becomes
the victim of a sex crime. Goodman (2003), in fact, contends that we are overcoming that tendency. She points to specific rape cases in Massachusetts where, despite defense
attorneys diligent effort to portray the victims as women of questionable character, juries have delivered guilty verdicts. Goodman (2003) contends that this indicates a "change of public mind", a
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