Victim-Offender overlap
Victim-Offender Overlap: a well-established criminological phenomenon where people who commit offences are also likely to be victims of crime, and the other way around (Beckley et al. 2018).
Costs of victimisation:
Financial:
Property loss (eg. theft or damage)
Legal costs
Loss of wages
Insurance premium increase
Victim services offers aid to victims for financial losses
Non-financial:
Pain and suffering
Loss of enjoyment
Loss of sense of security
Why victims may not go to court:
Fear
Double victimisation or the second insult
limited participation
Financial and time loss from the court process
May not want to see the offender again
Fear of making mistake and allowing offender to ‘get away’ with it
Restorative justice:
Restore the dominion of the victim
The victim’s loss is everyones loss