Handbook of Victims and Victimology

Description

This second edition of the Handbook of Victims and Victimology presents a comprehensively revised and updated set of essays, bringing together internationally recognised scholars and practitioners to offer substantial research informed overviews within their specialist fields of investigation. This handbook is divided into five parts, with each part addressing a different theme within victimology:

• Part I offers a scene-setting exploration of new developments in the field, enduring issues that remain relatively unchanged and the gaps and traps within the contemporary victimological agenda
• Part II examines of the complex dimensions to victim experiences as structured by gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality and intersectionality
• Part III reflects on the problems and possibilities of formulating policy responses in the light of the changing appreciation of the nature and extent of victimhood
• Part IV focused on the value of a comparative lens and the problems and possibilities of victim policies when seen through this lens, explored along three geographical axes: Europe, Australia and Asia
• Part V considers other ways of thinking about who counts as a victim and what counts as victimhood and extends the boundaries of the victimological imagination outward

Building on the success of the previous edition, this book provides an international focus on cutting-edge issues in the field of victimology. Including brand new chapters on intersectionality, child victims, sexuality, hate crime and crimes of the powerful, this handbook is essential reading for students and academics studying victims and victimology and an essential reference tool for those working within the victim support environment.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Overview
2. Part I: Perspectives on Victims and Victimisation
   1. Introduction to Part I
   2. A Question of History
   3. Theoretical Perspectives on Victimisation
   4. The social epidemiology of crime victimization: The paradox of prevention
   5. The Impact of Crime: Victimisation, Harm and Resilience
3. Part II: Victims, Victimology and ‘Difference’
   1. Introduction to Part II
   2. Feminist Voices, Gender and Victimisation
   3. Child Victims of Human Rights Violation
   4. Victims of Hate Crime
   5. Sexuality and victimisation
   6. Intersectionality and Victimisation
4. Part III: Policy Directions and Service Delivery
   1. Introduction to Part III
   2. Interventions and services for victims of crime
   3. The victim in court
   4. Restorative Justice and Victims of Crime: Directions and developments
   5. Theorising victimisation through the individual and collective reparations programs for Indian Residential School abuse
5. Part IV: Comparative Perspectives
   1. Introduction to Part IV
   2. A glass half full, or half empty? On the implementation of the EU’s Victims Directive regarding police reception and specialized support
   3. Victims support in policy and legal process in Australia: Still an ambivalent and contested space
   4. Looking into Asia: Managing crime through victim policy?
6. Part V: Other Visions of Victims and Victimology
   1. Introduction to Part V
   2. Crime as a Social Relation of Power: Reframing the ‘Ideal Victim’ of Corporate Crimes
   3. We Are All Complicit: Victimization and Crimes of the Powerful
   4. Cultural Victimology Revisited: Synergies of Risk, Fear and Resilience
   5. Conclusion: Developing an agenda for a (critical) victimology

Author Description

Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at Liverpool University. In 2016 she was appointed as conjoint Professor of Criminology at the University of Monash, Melbourne, Australia, working with colleagues there as part of their Gender and Family Violence Research Focus Program. She also holds an adjunct professorial role at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia (2015–2018).