TY - JOUR PY - 1995// TI - Armed resistance to crime: the prevalence and nature of self-defense with a gun JO - Journal of criminal law and criminology A1 - Kleck, Gary D. A1 - Gertz, Marc G. SP - 150 EP - 187 VL - 86 IS - 1 N2 -

Crime victims used to be ignored by criminologists. Then, beginning slowly in the 1940s and more rapidly in the 1970s, interest in the victim's role in crime grew. Yet a tendency to treat the victim as either a passive target of another person's wrongdoing or as a virtual accomplice of the criminal limited this interest The concept of the victim-precipitated homicide highlighted the possibility that victims were not always blameless and passive targets, but that they sometimes initiated or contributed to the escalation of a violent … See correction of serious errors in J. Crim. Law Criminol. 1996; 86(2):621

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