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This book discusses the manifold levels (micro vs. macro) and forms (physical, sexual, etc.) of victimization.
List of contents
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 Miers
Chapter Eight: Victimhood and Transitional Justice, Kieran McEvoy & Kirsten McConnachie
Part Three: Bringing the State Back In
Chapter Nine: A Change for the better or Same Old Story? Women, the State and Miscarriages of Justice, Annette Ballinger
Chapter Ten: Hierarchical Victims of Terrorism and War, Ross McGarry
Chapter Eleven: Bereaved Family Activism in Contexts of Organized Mass Violence, Jon Shute
Conclusion: Critical Victimology beyond the Academe: Engaging Publics and Policy, Sandra Walklate & Dale C. Spencer
About the author
Dale Spencer is assistant professor in the Department of Law and Legal Studies at Carleton University.
Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool and professor of Criminology at Monash University.
