Imagining the victim of crime
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Imagining the victim of crime
Open University Press, 2007
- : pbk
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-180) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"...the clarity in which the wide range of relevant issues are presented throughout the book makes this must-reading for new entrants to this field and for students."
International Review of VictimologyThis book situates the contemporary preoccupation with criminal victimisation within the broader socio-cultural changes of the last twenty five years. In so doing it addresses not only the policy possibilities that have been generated as a consequence of those changes but also concerns itself with the ability of victimology to help make sense of this change. Written in the post 9/11 context this book considers the efficacy of theory and policy relating to questions of victimhood to accommodate the current political and cultural climate and offers a critical understanding of both. It adopts an explicitly cross-cultural position on these questions. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the problems and possibilities posed by criminal victimisation understood in the broadest terms.
Table of Contents
- Why are we all victims now? Theory and Victimology Structuring Criminal Victimisation Victimisation, risk and fear Victimisation, politics and policy Local victim
- global context The rhetoric of victimhood and the role of the state
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