Question

Matthew and Ryan are devout Christian Fundamentalists and believe that homosexuality is against God's will and that homosexuals deserve to be punished. They spend a couple evenings each week in gay bashing activities that include physical violence and verbal assaults. Based on their rationalization, which technique of neutralization is most applicable for Matthew and Ryan to maintain positive self-images?

Answer 1

Answer:

denial of a victim                                                                                                          

Explanation:

The theory of neutralization was proposed by David Matza and Gresham Sykes during 1957 and consists of five different techniques including denial of injury, denial of responsibility, condemnation of the condemners, appeal to higher loyalties, and the denial of victim.

Denial of the victim: The term denial of the victim is defined as the procedure in which the offender asserts that a victim should earn what she or she has got and therefore the offender explains the crime by comprehending that the victim was a cheater, bad person, etc.

In the question above, Matthew and Ryan to maintain positive self-images the most applicable neutralization technique would be a denial of a victim.