Five Types Of The Victim Typology

The victim typologies are classifications developed by several authors to study the role of the victim in the conflict that had it as a passive subject. Victims should not be considered as inert, immovable and applied mechanical way categories, since each fact must be analyzed individually according to the special and particular characteristics of the case. Typologies work in order to bring together in large groups those more meaningful characteristics of people defined as victims. Benjamin Mendelsohn, the "father" of victimology, discovered there was a strong relationship between victims and offenders. Which in my opinion is the most objective and less confusing in all of the types of victim typology classifications; not to mention that,
In his early works he came up with a classification in which it departs from legal criteria for proposing five categories of general types and six of psychological types. Without making a classification of all victims, more like categorizing the most frequently or mostly victim type. The first classification is not really a typology due to it does not provide a single criterion to classify cases. It is not comprehensive, feature recognized by the same Von Hentig. The same case can fall into different types, and any of them can be a recidivist. The second classification, has the virtue of taking into consideration a number of biological, psychological and social factors that give great wealth. Von Hentig tells us people who have been objectively injured in any of their legal rights and subjectively experience the damage with discomfort or pain. These definitions where the suffering of victims stands out not seem right. If we want to highlight legal persons as victims, this subjective definition as a condition of discomfort or pain does not serve us. He likes more talk of harm or damage as a detriment. However, it seems to me, that just like the first classification, the same case may fall into different types. (Hans von Hentig's Victim