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| Document Type: | Book |
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| ISBN: | 9781498510264 1498510264 |
| OCLC Number: | 979882016 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Themes and Issues in Critical Victimology, Dale C. Spencer & Sandra WalklatePart One: Thinking Critically about VictimhoodChapter One: Sovereign Bodies, Minds and Victim Culture, Ronnie LippensChapter Two: Still Worlds Apart? Habitus, Field, and Masculinities in Victim and Police Interactions, Dale C. Spencer & Jillian PattersonChapter Three: Boys to Offenders: Damaging Masculinity and Traumatic Victimization, Rebecca S. Katz & Hannah M. WillisChapter Four: The Parent as Paradoxical Victim: Adolescent to Parent Violence and Contested Victimization, Rachel CondryChapter Five: Victims of Hate: Thinking Beyond the Tick-Box, Neil ChakrabortiPart Two: Victims and Victim Services in Comparative PerspectiveChapter Six: Punishment or Solidarity: Comparing the U.S. and Swedish Victim Movements, Carina Gallo & Robert EliasChapter Seven: Restorative Justice as a Boundary Object: Some Critical Reflections on the Rise and Influence of Restorative Justice in England and Wales, David MiersChapter Eight: Victimhood and Transitional Justice, Kieran McEvoy & Kirsten McConnachiePart Three: Bringing the State Back InChapter Nine: A Change for the better or Same Old Story? Women, the State and Miscarriages of Justice, Annette BallingerChapter Ten: Hierarchical Victims of Terrorism and War, Ross McGarryChapter Eleven: Bereaved Family Activism in Contexts of Organized Mass Violence, Jon ShuteConclusion: Critical Victimology beyond the Academe: Engaging Publics and Policy, Sandra Walklate & Dale C. Spencer |
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This edited collection provides an important and valuable contribution to our understanding of the cultural politics of 'victimhood' and our responses to victimization. Victim suffering is explored across a diverse array of political, social, economic and cultural contexts using a range of theoretical and empirical tools that bring us new concepts to work with and guide future research. In doing so, this book puts forward a policy agenda that challenges narrow positivist frames and promotes a critical approach with significant implications for practice and justice. -- Tracey Booth, University of Technology Sydney This edited volume expands the existing critique of the blind spots and limitations of positivist approaches to studying victimization by challenging taken-for-granted assumptions, presenting alternative paradigms, exploring new models, and proposing innovative policies. In order to familiarize readers with the breadth and depth of a critical perspective within victimology, the authors of each chapter analyze plenty of concrete examples: actual cases that unfolded during various historical periods in a number of countries; as well as the actions and reactions of government agencies, political and social movements, and economic forces to the people and groups who suffered physically, emotionally, and financially. -- Andrew Karmen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Read more...
