ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the impact of crime. You will recall that in Chapter 1 some introductory comments were made about the area of analysis within criminology called victimology. In that chapter you were introduced to the ideas that have historically informed the way in which those criminologists who have been interested in the victim of crime have gone about their work. You were also made aware of the way in which the work of feminists challenged those ideas and the way in which these processes resulted in the assumption that men cannot be victims. In Chapter 1 this was called the ‘victimological other’. In this chapter the criminological concern with the victim of crime will be explored in much more detail building on what has been learned about the nature and extent of crime from Chapter 3.
