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This book examines the experiences of relatives of those accused or
convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and
sex offences. A broader literature exists on prisoners' families,
but few studies have looked specifically at those related to
serious offenders, or considered their experience other than as
prison visitors. Many of the difficulties faced by 'mundane'
prisoners' families are magnified for the relatives of serious
offenders, first by the length of sentence, and secondly by the
seriousness and stigmatizing impact through association of the
offence itself.
Families Shamed draws upon intense qualitative research which
combines long, searching interviews with the relatives of serious
offenders with ethnographic fieldwork over a period of several
years. The book focuses on how relatives made sense of their
experiences, individually and collectively: how they described the
difficulties they faced; whether they were blamed and shamed and in
what manner; how they understood the offence and the circumstances
which had brought it about; and how they dealt with the
contradiction inherent in supporting someone and yet not condoning
his or her actions.
This is the first book to tell the story of serious offenders'
families, the difficulties they face, and their attempts to
overcome them. At the same time a focus on offenders' families also
draws our attention to the ways in which women are affected by
crime, illuminating the broader effects of crime and the criminal
justice process on the proportionately greater number of women
involved. It contributes also to wider debates about the social
organization of the meanings of crime, and questions the tenability
of some core policy assumptions about offenders and their families;
the relationship between the state and the family, and its bearing
especially on expectations about family responsibilities.
This book examines the experiences of relatives of those accused or
convicted of serious crimes such as murder, manslaughter, rape and
sex offences. A broader literature exists on prisoners' families,
but few studies have looked specifically at those related to
serious offenders, or considered their experience other than as
prison visitors. Many of the difficulties faced by 'mundane'
prisoners' families are magnified for the relatives of serious
offenders, first by the length of sentence, and secondly by the
seriousness and stigmatizing impact through association of the
offence itself. Families Shamed draws upon intense qualitative
research which combines long, searching interviews with the
relatives of serious offenders with ethnographic fieldwork over a
period of several years. The book focuses on how relatives made
sense of their experiences, individually and collectively: how they
described the difficulties they faced; whether they were blamed and
shamed and in what manner; how they understood the offence and the
circumstances which had brought it about; and how they dealt with
the contradiction inherent in supporting someone and yet not
condoning his or her actions. This is the first book to tell the
story of serious offenders' families, the difficulties they face,
and their attempts to overcome them. At the same time a focus on
offenders' families also draws our attention to the ways in which
women are affected by crime, illuminating the broader effects of
crime and the criminal justice process on the proportionately
greater number of women involved. It contributes also to wider
debates about the social organization of the meanings of crime, and
questions the tenability of some core policy assumptions about
offenders and their families; the relationship between the state
and the family, and its bearing especially on expectations about
family responsibilities.
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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