New Visions of Crime Victims

Carolyn Hoyle, Richard Young (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2004
Hart Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-84113-521-2 (ISBN)

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This innovative collection presents original theoretical analyses and previously unpublished empirical research on criminal victimisation. Following an overview of the development and deficiencies of victimology, subsequent chapters present more detailed challenges to stereotypical conceptions of victimisation through their focus on: male victims of domestic violence; victims of male-on-male rape; corporate victims; and the 'victim-offenders' who are the recipients of IRA punishment beatings. The second half of the book considers criminal justice responses to victimisation, focusing in particular on the potential of, and limits to, restorative justice, the social (and gendered) construction of the victim within contested trials and the exclusionary nature of current 'victim-centred' initiatives. This important book will further the debate on how we conceptualise victims as well as their appropriate role within the criminal justice system. New Visions of Crime Victims will be of interest to academics, students, criminal justice practitioners and policy-makers.
It has particular implications for scholarship in the fields of victimology, restorative justice and feminist approaches to criminology and criminal justice. The integration of work by established criminologists, such as Carolyn Hoyle, Paul Rock, Andrew Sanders and Richard Young with that of young, previously unpublished scholars, makes for an interesting and stimulating book. As well as being a valuable addition to the literature, it can be used to support undergraduate and postgraduate courses in criminal justice and criminology. From the reviews of the hardback edition: "This is a stimulating and well-presented book." Martin Wright, Restorative Justice Online, November 2003 "The book succeeds in its goal of introducing 'new voices', both in terms of the topics as well as the authors." Roxanne Lieb, Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, July 2003 "...it will be a valuable asset to victimologists and academic libraries because it includes so many challenges to conventional wisdom." Brian Williams, British Society of Criminology Newsletter, March 2003

Dr Carolyn Hoyle is Professor of Criminology at the University of Oxford Centre for Criminological Research and a Fellow of Green College. Richard Young is Professor of Law and Policy at Bristol University.

1. On Becoming a Victim
Paul Rock

2. Male Victims of Rape: Responses to a Perceived Threat to Masculinity
Stephanie Allen

3. Victims of Paramilitary Punishment Attacks in Belfast
Heather Hamill

4. Female-on-Male Domestic Violence: Uncommon or Ignored?
Ann Grady

5. Securing Restorative Justice for the ‘Non-Participating’ Victim
Carolyn Hoyle

6. Testing the Limits of Restorative Justice: The Case of Corporate Victims
Richard Young

7. The Trial of Rose West: Contesting Notions of Victimhood
Jo Winter

8. Victim Participation in an Exclusionary Criminal Justice System
Andrew Sanders

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2004
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	376 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-84113-521-6 / 1841135216
ISBN-13	978-1-84113-521-2 / 9781841135212
Zustand	Neuware