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In assessing the readings and examining your own experiences, consider to what extent you have witnessed being party to blaming the victims.To what extent have you and your family been, as well,
targets of this victim blaming thinking?
How have the courts and other societal institutions contributed to this message; namely, that the poor and the disabled are somehow responsible for their disadvantaged circumstances and the focus
therefore ought to be on remedial intervention strategies designed to change the individuals while effectively ignoring the circumstances that brought them to their status in society.
How has society viewed and understood the poor and disabled? Have these views found their way into your own understanding?
How have the courts and other societal institutions contributed to the message that the poor and the disabled are somehow responsible for their disadvantaged circumstances? Why do you think social
institutions focus on remedial intervention strategies designed to change the individuals while effectively ignoring the circumstances that brought them to their status in society? In assessing the
readings and examining your own experiences, consider to what extent you have been witness or party to blaming the victims. From your own personal observations, how do you explain the radical
disparity between economic standing in this country? To what do you attribute this imbalance?