What’s on the Who Is Most at Risk poster
A definition and 5 facts worth remembering.
Victimisation is patterned by age, sex, place and prior experience rather than spread evenly.
- Young men have the highest risk of violence
- Older people are among the least likely victims
- Fear is often highest where risk is lowest
- Deprivation is linked to higher victimisation
- Prior victimisation strongly predicts more
- Common mismatch — High worry, comparatively low risk
- Strongest predictor — Having been victimised before
- Public concern often centres on the group least likely to be victimised.
Educational reference. These patterns come from national surveys and vary by offence, country and year; check the source series.
Questions about the Who Is Most at Risk poster
- What’s on the Who Is Most at Risk poster?
- A definition and 5 facts worth remembering. Victimisation is patterned by age, sex, place and prior experience rather than spread evenly. Young men have the highest risk of violence; Older people are among the least likely victims; Fear is often highest where risk is lowest; Deprivation is linked to higher victimisation; Prior victimisation strongly predicts more; Common mismatch — High worry, comparatively low risk; Strongest predictor — Having been victimised before; Public concern often centres on the group least likely to be victimised.. Educational reference. These patterns come from national surveys and vary by offence, country and year; check the source series.
- Who is the Who Is Most at Risk poster for?
- Who Is Most at Risk belongs to the Criminal Justice section rather than to a school year, because law & society is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning victimology can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Who Is Most at Risk poster?
- Use it when policy is being argued from public worry rather than from risk. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Who Is Most at Risk belongs on the wall where that law & society work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Who Is Most at Risk?
- Domestic Abuse Response, Fear of Crime and Hate Crime sit alongside Who Is Most at Risk in the Criminal Justice section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Domestic Abuse ResponseFear of CrimeHate Crime
- Is the Who Is Most at Risk poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Who Is Most at Risk downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Criminal Justice section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Who Is Most at Risk poster print at?
- Who Is Most at Risk is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Who Is Most at Risk loses nothing.Printing guide
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