NCJ Number
81861
Journal
Criminology Volume: 19 Issue: 4 Dated: (February 1982) Pages: 546-564
Date Published
1982
Length
19 pages
Annotation
Derivative deviance is defined as the victimization of stigmatized persons because of their inability to avail themselves of the protections of civil society without threat of discrediting.
Abstract
Whether there is a preexisting relationship the victim and the victimizer affects the possible forms of victimization. When there is no preexisting relationship, victims must be identified by culturally accepted understandings of which places are deviant and what deviants look like. In these cases, the principal forms of victimization are assault and robbery. When there is a preexisting relationship, greater knowledge of the victim's significant others permits the more sophisticated victimization of extortion. However, to the extent the victim has reference groups who are also deviant, he is often able to resist extortion attempts. Extortion attempts were found typically to arise out of preexisting relationships among our gay male respondents. (Publisher abstract)