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Since the 1960s, the field of victimology has developed into a variegated discipline with its own theoretical and methodological traditions. In the early 1990s two texts were published—Towards a Critical Victimology (Fattah, 1992) and Critical Victimology (Mawby and Walklate, 1994)—that concretized critical victimology as a paradigm within victimology. Since then, the field has remained conceptually stale and with few a few exceptions there has not been a considerable lacuna of works from a critical perspective. Reconceptualizing Critical Victimology: Interventions and Possibilities provides a rejoinder to the two aforementioned texts and demonstrate how critical victimology can be reconceptualized, where interventions can be made in this victimological paradigm, and possibilities for future theorizing and research in this provocative field. Reconceptualizing Critical Victimology includes eleven papers on the forms of victimization and issues pertinent to victims written by leading and emerging international scholars in the field of critical victimology. It is interdisciplinary in scope and contains contributions from leading and emergent international scholars on victims and victimization. Reconceptualizing Critical Victimology serves as a crucible to demonstrate the complexities of and the multitude of factors that interact to complicate victim status, the vagaries of victim response, and the phenomenology of violence and victimization.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: Themes and Issues in Critical Victimology, Dale C. Spencer & Sandra Walklate
Part One: Thinking Critically about Victimhood
Chapter One: Sovereign Bodies, Minds and Victim Culture, Ronnie Lippens
Chapter Two: Still Worlds Apart? Habitus, Field, and Masculinities in Victim and Police Interactions, Dale C. Spencer & Jillian Patterson
Chapter Three: Boys to Offenders: Damaging Masculinity and Traumatic Victimization, Rebecca S. Katz & Hannah M. Willis
Chapter Four: The Parent as Paradoxical Victim: Adolescent to Parent Violence and Contested Victimization, Rachel Condry
Chapter Five: Victims of Hate: Thinking Beyond the Tick-Box, Neil Chakraborti
Part Two: Victims and Victim Services in Comparative Perspective
Chapter Six: Punishment or Solidarity: Comparing the U.S. and Swedish Victim Movements, Carina Gallo & Robert Elias
Chapter Seven: Restorative Justice as a Boundary Object: Some Critical Reflections on the Rise and Influence of Restorative Justice in England and Wales, David Mier
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Dale Spencer is associate professor and Faculty of Public Affairs' Research Excellence Chair in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.Robert Elias is Dean’s Scholar and Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at the University of San Francisco. His most recent baseball books include Baseball Rebels: The Players, People, and Social Movements That Shook Up the Game and Changed America and Major League Rebels: Baseball Battles Over Workers’ Rights and American Empire (both with Peter Dreier). His baseball essays have appeared in Nine, Jacobin, Baseball Research Journal, American History Magazine, Pacific Historical Review, Diplomatic History, International Journal of the History of Sport, and the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture. He is a longtime Society for American Baseball Research and Baseball Reliquary member. He lives in Mill Valley, CA, near San Francisco.Dale Spencer is associate professor and Faculty of Public Affairs' Research Excellence Chair in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
