Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim'

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4473-3876-5
Verlag: Policy Press

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 678 g

Nils Christie’s (1986) seminal work on the ‘Ideal Victim’ is reproduced in full in this edited collection of vibrant and provocative essays that respond to and update the concept from a range of thematic positions.

Each chapter celebrates and commemorates his work by analysing, evaluating and critiquing the current nature and impact of victim identity, experience, policy and practice. The collection expands the focus and remit of ‘victim studies’, addressing key themes around race, gender, faith, ability and age while encompassing new and diverse issues. Examples include sex workers as victims of hate crimes, victims’ experiences of online fraud, and recognising historic child sexual abuse victims in Ireland.

With contributions from an array of academics including Vicky Heap (Sheffield Hallam University), Hannah Mason-Bish (University of Sussex) and Pamela Davies (Northumbria University), as well as a Foreword by David Scott (The Open University), this book evaluates the contemporary relevance and applicability of Christie’s ‘Ideal Victim’ concept and creates an important platform for thinking differently about victimhood in the 21st century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duggan, Marian

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sloan, Jennifer

Furusho, Caroline Yoko

Pemberton, Antony

Bosma, Alice

Gracia, Jorge

Cohen, Claire

Cross, Cassandra

Bows, Hannah

Heap, Vicky

Fohring, Stephanie

Davies, Pamela

Ring, Sinead

Corteen, Karen

Barnes, Rebecca

Donovan, Catherine

Zempi, Irene

Mason-Bish, Hannah

Mulder, Eva

Christie, Nils

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Ideal Victim ~ Nils Christie

Part One: Exploring the ‘Ideal Victim’

The Ideal Victim through Other(s’) Eyes ~ Alice Bosma, Eva Mulder and Antony Pemberton

Creating Ideal Victims in Hate Crime Policy ~ Hannah Mason-Bish

The Lived Experiences of Veiled Muslim Women as ‘Undeserving’ Victims of Islamophobia ~ Irene Zempi

Being 'Ideal' or Falling Short?: The Legitimacy of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and/or Transgender Victims of Domestic Violence and Hate Crime ~ Catherine Donovan and Rebecca Barnes

New Victimisations: Female Sex Worker Hate Crime and the ‘Ideal Victim’~ Karen Corteen

The ‘Ideal Migrant Victim’ In Human Rights Courts: Between Vulnerability and Otherness ~ Carolina Yoko Furusho

‘Our most precious possession of all.’ The Survivor of Historical Child Sexual Abuse as the Ideal Victim? ~ Sinéad Ring

'Idealising' Domestic Violence Victims ~ Marian Duggan

Environmental Crime, Victimisation, and The Ideal Victim ~ Pamela Davies

Part Two: Exploring the ‘Non-Ideal’ Victim

Revisiting the Non-Ideal Victim ~ Stephanie Fohring

Conceptualising Victims of Anti-Social Behaviour is Far from 'Ideal' ~ Vicky Heap

The ‘Ideal’ Rape Victim and the Elderly Woman: A Contradiction in Terms? ~ Hannah Bows

“They thought I was a bloody fool”: The Challenge of Gaining Legitimate Victim Status for Online Fraud Victims ~ Cassandra Cross

Male Prisoners’ Vulnerabilities and the Ideal Victim Concept ~ Jennifer Rainbow

A Decade After Lynndie: Non-Ideal Victims of Non-Ideal Offenders – Doubly Anomalised, Doubly Invisibilised ~ Claire Cohen

Towards an Inclusive Victimology and a New Understanding of Public Compassion to Victims: From and Beyond Christie´s Ideal Victim ~ Jorge Gracia

Conclusion ~ Marian Duggan

Über Autor(innen)

Corteen, Karen
Karen Corteen is a Senior Lecturer in Criminal Justice in the School of Law at Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Karen is interested in, has published in and teaches in, the areas of: victimology and visual victimology; critical criminology and zemiology; crimes and harms of the powerful and resistance to it; sports criminology, and the occupational-related harms of the 'sports entertainment' industry. She also publishes in the area of hate crime including female sex worker hate crime.

Bosma, Alice
Tilberg University

Bows, Hannah
Editor, Geographies of Gender-Based Violence

Donovan, Catherine
Editor, Landscapes of Hate

Pemberton, Antony
LEUVEN INSTITUTE OF CRIMINOLOGY

Duggan, Marian
Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim' Concept

Dr Marian Duggan is a Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. Her research interests focus on informing policy and practice to reduce sexual, gendered and hate-based victimisation. She has published widely in these areas, using her engagement with the statutory and third sectors to inform her teaching and scholarly practice.