In 250-500 words or more complete the following:
Go to http://www.rateyourrisk.org/ and complete all three tests. Discuss the following in 250 words or more:
1. What were your specific numbers for each test?
risk of assault test 5 risk of murder 64 and risk of burglary 3
2. Provide a brief overview of the report.
All low numbers
3. What can be done to reduce your risk of victimization.
4. If your level of victimization was high, which theory of victimization could lead to your victimization?
Be sure to use proper APA formatting.
Victimization
I got below fifty points in the risk of serious assault, risk of murder, and risk of burglary tests. In the risk of serious assault test, I got twelve points. Risk of murder test, I got forty points and risk of burglary test, I got negative ten points (RateYourRisk.com, n.d.). For the risk of serious assault test, twelve means that I have a low risk of assault. That shows that I’m very cautious or I’m a poor target. However, that doesn’t mean that I should be overconfident about it. There is a need to keep up the precautions. The score for the risk of burglary test was negative ten. Anything less than fifty means there is a low risk of burglary. The lower the score, the lower the chances of being a victim of burglary. That means I take various sensible precautions, and for those that score less than twenty-five, they mostly dwell in apartments.
Crimes happen almost everywhere at any time of the day. They can happen to anyone, even when they least expect it. To avoid the risk of victimization, one has to avoid opening the door to strangers or people they do not expect. Any sliding glass door must have an auxiliary locking device. The sliding glass door must also have screws in the upper track to prevent lifting the door out of the track. Once a person moves into a new house, all the door locks have to be changed to avoid burglary if the people staying in that house before had spare keys or duplicates. The chain locks on doors must have a screw that is more than one pint five inches. All the outside doors have to be insulated with steel that has deadbolts or jimmy-resistant deadlocks.
Every house has to contain a burglar alarm with a thirty-watt siren or louder. There has to be an alarm that lets the homeowner know that there is someone in their driveway, which should be a magnetic inductance or another unseen sensor. The local alarm must have more than ten hours’ backup battery. A person should not put on gold chains or any other jewelry worth more than two thousand dollars in public. If you wear expensive outfits like a fur coat, an overcoat, or a full-length rain suit over a suit jacket in public, one may be considered a target of an assault. Walking with an umbrella or a cane without necessity is also risky. Again, walking with young children or a dog in public is risky. One has to learn to change a tire since it can save them from a tight spot. Leaving a mail in the parking lot with the address showing or putting a name on the mailbox is very risky.
There are four theories that best explain victimization. They include the victim precipitation theory, deviant place theory, the lifestyle theory, and routine theory. The best theory that explains my level of victimization, if it was high, is lifestyle theory. It suggests that people get targeted based on their life choices (Pratt & Turanovic, 2016). The lifestyle choices expose them to situations that lead to crime, like stepping out during the night alone, living in areas known to be of high crime and all the above names situations that I termed as risky, for example, wearing fur coats and expensive jewelry in public. The victims specified in the lifestyle theory share personality traits called impulsivity and low self-control. These people can also be daring since they are aware of the possible risks, but they are not afraid of taking risks. Their more conservative lifestyle counterparts are considered at lower risks since they are cautious of their lifestyle.
References
RateYourRisk.com. (n.d.). RateYourRisk.com. https://www.rateyourrisk.org/#serious_assault_test
Pratt, T. C., & Turanovic, J. J. (2016). Lifestyle and routine activity theories revisited: The importance of “risk” to the study of victimization. Victims & Offenders, 11(3), 335-354.
