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This book provides a rich analysis of the history of Swedish victim
support. With the majority of research on victim support centering
on the Anglosphere, this book offers a unique case study for
considering the role of the victim in the criminal justice system.
While Sweden has enacted many laws to support victims, and victim
assistance programs have grown rapidly, welfare policy has become
more restrictive and crime policy, to some degree, more punitive.
Drawing on archival material and interviews with key
representatives for the Swedish Association for Victim Support
(BOJ), this book examines what role the victim movement has played
in a changing welfare state. It argues that BOJ filled a function
in the decentralization and privatization of the Swedish welfare
state and explores distinctive features of the Swedish victim
movement and the form it has taken, as compared to that in other
countries. This book will be of interest to scholars and students
of criminology, sociology, social policy, civil society studies,
and social work, and those engaged in studies of victims and
victimology.
This book provides a rich analysis of the history of Swedish victim
support. With the majority of research on victim support centering
on the Anglosphere, this book offers a unique case study for
considering the role of the victim in the criminal justice system.
While Sweden has enacted many laws to support victims, and victim
assistance programs have grown rapidly, welfare policy has become
more restrictive and crime policy, to some degree, more punitive.
Drawing on archival material and interviews with key
representatives for the Swedish Association for Victim Support
(BOJ), this book examines what role the victim movement has played
in a changing welfare state. It argues that BOJ filled a function
in the decentralization and privatization of the Swedish welfare
state and explores distinctive features of the Swedish victim
movement and the form it has taken, as compared to that in other
countries. This book will be of interest to scholars and students
of criminology, sociology, social policy, civil society studies,
and social work, and those engaged in studies of victims and
victimology.
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.
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