Structural Vulnerability
Definition
A position in the social, legal or economic order that reduces a person's power to resist harm or to seek redress after it, independent of any individual behaviour.
Related terms
- Hidden Male Victimisation
- Sexual or domestic victimisation of men and boys that is systematically undercounted because of stigma, service design built around female victims, and...
- Minority Stress
- Chronic stress produced by stigma, prejudice and expected rejection, layered on top of the ordinary stress of daily life, a concept developed...
- Underreporting
- The gap between crimes that actually occur against a population and the share of those crimes that reach police or another recording...
- Conversion Practices
- Attempts to change a person's sexual orientation or gender identity through therapy, religious counselling or coercion, increasingly treated in law as a...
- Hate Crime Enhancement
- A sentencing add-on, distinct from the underlying offence, applied when a crime is proven to be motivated by bias against the victim's...
- Intersectionality
- Kimberle Crenshaw's 1989 term for how belonging to more than one vulnerable category produces a distinct, compounded risk rather than simple additive...
- Mandatory Reporting
- A statutory obligation in specified categories, most commonly child abuse and serious violent crime, that requires a health professional to report to...
- Online Sextortion of Minors
- Coercion of a child, typically through a fabricated relationship or a threat to release sexual images, into producing further sexual content or...
- Protective Legislation
- Anti-discrimination law and hate-crime enhancement law, the two broad legal instruments used to respond to structural-vulnerability crime.
Explained in these topics
- Crimes Against Women, Children and Marginalised Groups
- Crimes Against Women, Children, LGBTQ and Marginalised Groups (UGC-NET Unit I)A weaker legal, economic, social or physical position that lowers the cost of offending against a group and raises the cost of its members reporting the offenc...