... victimologies have not. Founded in the 1970s and significantly influenced by radical feminism, feminist victimology primarily recognises victimisation as the product of unequal power relations, sexism, and other types of prejudice within the law and Criminal Justice System. The feminist approach to victimology is therefore concerned with combatting societal sexism, achieving gender equality, and campaigning for women ... which have been largely ignored by mainstream (malestream) ideologies. For example, feminist victimology research has shown that females are more likely to be the victim...

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