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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.
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.
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
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.
This edited collection provides an important and valuable
contribution to our understanding of the cultural politics of
‘victimhood’ and our responses to victimization. Victim suffering
is explored across a diverse array of political, social, economic
and cultural contexts using a range of theoretical and empirical
tools that bring us new concepts to work with and guide future
research. In doing so, this book puts forward a policy agenda that
challenges narrow positivist frames and promotes a critical
approach with significant implications for practice and
justice.
*Tracey Booth, University of Technology Sydney*
This edited volume expands the existing critique of the blind spots
and limitations of positivist approaches to studying victimization
by challenging taken-for-granted assumptions, presenting
alternative paradigms, exploring new models, and proposing
innovative policies. In order to familiarize readers with the
breadth and depth of a critical perspective within victimology, the
authors of each chapter analyze plenty of concrete examples: actual
cases that unfolded during various historical periods in a number
of countries; as well as the actions and reactions of government
agencies, political and social movements, and economic forces to
the people and groups who suffered physically, emotionally, and
financially.
*Andrew Karmen, John Jay College of Criminal Justice*
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