Constructing Victimhood - Beyond Innocence and Guilt in Transitional Justice

About the author

Cheryl Lawther is a Reader at the School of Law and a Fellow of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, Queen's University Belfast. Her research interests are in the fields of transitional justice, truth recovery, victims and the use of atrocity sites. She is the author of 'Truth, Denial and Transition: Northern Ireland and the Contested Past' (Routledge 2014) and lead editor of the 'Research Handbook on Transitional Justice' (Edward Elgar 2017, 2023). Cheryl is the previous recipient of the Brian Williams Article Prize by the British Society of Criminology, a Fulbright Ireland Scholarship and a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship.

Summary

Constructing Victimhood seeks to go beyond innocence and guilt to expand the criminological, victimological and transitional justice gaze of who we 'see' as victims, what we 'hear' as experiences of victimisation, and who makes these determinations. This book aims to change our understanding of victimhood in post-conflict and transitional contexts.

Product details

• Authors: Cheryl Lawther, Prof Cheryl (School of Law Lawther
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.01.2025
• EAN: 9780192846365
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284636-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, LAW / Criminal Procedure, LAW / Remedies & Damages, Legal aspects of criminology, Gender studies, gender groups, Crime & criminology, Criminal procedure, Criminal justice law, Criminology: legal aspects, Criminal law: offences against the person, Offences against the person, Victimology and victims of crime, Civil remedies