Victimological analysis of homeless people victimization

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Ph.D student of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabatabai University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor, Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law and Political Science, Allameh Tabatabai University.Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Nowadays, homelessness is considered as a social damage and a serious challenge in different countries, including Iran. In addition to to non-structural factors (personal-family) effective in its occurrence, structural factors (economy, employment and housing) have been identified as the main cause of homelessness.
Homeless people are exposed to threats of victimization before and during their homeless life. This article, with a descriptive-analytical method, while investigating the causes of homelessness, tries to investigate the factors involved in the victimization of homeless people from the perspective of structural theories of criminology and theories of victimology.
The findings of the article indicate that some personal characteristics and vulnerable aspects such as age and gender are effective in intensifying the possibility of victimization of homeless people in two stages before and during homelessness. Also, the possibility possibility of initial victimization and their delinquency-victimization due to the conditions and lifestyle, personal characteristics and there are daily needs.

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