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Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim' : Developments in Critical Victimology.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (342 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781447339151
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 362.88
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Contents:
Intro -- REVISITING THE 'IDEAL VICTIM' -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Editor -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: thinking beyond the ideal -- Preface -- Introduction -- Background to the book -- Outline of the collection -- The Ideal Victim -- On being a victim -- The ideal victim -- The non-ideal victim -- The ideal and the not-so-ideal offender -- Ideal victims, real victims and scared victims -- Victims and social conditions -- Part 1. Exploring the 'Ideal Victim' -- 1. The ideal victim through other(s') eyes -- Stereotypes and moral typecasting -- The justice motive and framing -- Conclusion -- 2. Creating ideal victims in hate crime policy -- Introduction -- Constructing hate crime policy -- The victim's weakness -- Engagement in a respectable project -- Blamelessness -- The big and bad offender -- The unknown offender -- Power and influence -- Constructing deserving victims -- Concluding thoughts -- 3. The lived experiences of veiled Muslim women as 'undeserving' victims of Islamophobia -- Introduction -- Stigmatisation of veiled Muslim women -- State policies criminalising the wearing of the veil -- The research study -- Secondary victimisation in the criminal justice system -- Conclusion -- 4. Being 'ideal' or falling short? The legitimacy of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender victims of domestic violence and hate crime -- Introduction -- Christie's ideal victims and offenders: binaries and blind spots -- Less-than-ideal victims: LGB and/or T people experiencing DVA -- Problematising a femininity predicated on victimhood -- LGB and/or T hate crime victimisation -- Conclusion -- 5. New victimisations: female sex worker hate crime and the 'ideal victim' -- New victimisations and the inclusion of the non-ideal victim into the criminal justice process.
Defining victims - the multiple identities of female sex workers -- New victimisations - hate crime and hate crime laws -- New victimisations - female sex workers and hate crime -- The ideal victim concept -- 6. The 'ideal migrant victim' in human rights courts: between vulnerability and otherness -- Who are the vulnerable migrants? -- Idealising a vulnerable migrant victim -- Challenging vulnerability: a doubly exclusionary mechanism? -- Exclusion by misrecognition -- Exclusion by recognition -- Conclusion: rescuing vulnerability? -- 7. 'Our most precious possession of all'1: the survivor of non-recent childhood sexual abuse as the ideal victim? -- Introduction -- The recognition of legitimate suffering -- The monstrous abuser -- Contesting the 'ideal' status of victims of non-recent childhood sexual abuse -- Conclusion -- 8. 'Idealising' domestic violence victims -- Introduction -- Domestic violence victimisation and prevention -- The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme -- Victim responsibilisation -- Attributing blame -- Risk enhancement -- Conclusion: contradictions to the 'ideal victim' concept -- 9. Environmental crime, victimisation, and the ideal victim -- Introduction -- The victim in the context of environmental justice -- Defining victimisation: workers and communities as non-ideal victims -- Corporations as monsters and non-ideal offenders -- Victimisation from environmental governance -- Conclusion -- Part 2. Exploring the 'Non-Ideal' Victim -- 10. Revisiting the non-ideal victim -- Introduction -- Christie's (non-)ideal -- Expanding the concept of the non-ideal -- Qualitative evidence -- Psychological explanations -- Conclusion -- 11. Conceptualising victims of anti-social behaviour is far from 'ideal' -- Introduction -- Contextualising and understanding ASB victimisation -- Conceptualising victims of 'personal' anti-social behaviour.
Conceptualising communities as victims of anti-social behaviour -- Concluding thoughts -- 12. The 'ideal' rape victim and the elderly woman: a contradiction in terms? -- Introduction -- Background -- The 'real-rape' stereotype and the 'ideal victim' -- The 'ideal' older rape victim -- Challenging the stereotype -- Conclusion -- 13. Denying victim status to online fraud victims: the challenges of being a 'non-ideal victim' -- Introduction -- Defining a 'victim' -- A brief history of victimology and the 'ideal' victim -- Online fraud in context -- Applying the 'ideal victim' framework -- Summary of the five characteristics in the context of online fraud -- The implications of 'non-ideal' victim status -- Conclusion -- 14. Male prisoners' vulnerabilities and the ideal victim concept -- Introduction -- Male prisoners, vulnerability and victim status -- Male prisoners as vulnerable -- Victims of structural violence -- Conclusion -- 15. A decade after Lynndie: non-ideal victims of non-ideal offenders - doubly anomalised, doubly invisibilised -- Introduction -- The ideal victim - new concept, old construct, enduring problem: the ideal victim binary/ies as a normative taxonomy -- The ideal victim taxonomy and discursive equilibrium: the stubborn persistence of the gendered binary in sexual violence -- Concluding thoughts -- 16. Towards an inclusive victimology and a new understanding of public compassion to victims: from and beyond Christie's ideal victim -- Introduction -- Human suffering, compassion and crime victims -- Which victims? The 'ideal victim' as an object of compassion -- Politics of compassion -- Taking compassion seriously: new paths for victimology -- Some concluding thoughts: towards a more inclusive victimology -- Conclusion -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- REVISITING THE 'IDEAL VICTIM' -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Editor -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: thinking beyond the ideal -- Preface -- Introduction -- Background to the book -- Outline of the collection -- The Ideal Victim -- On being a victim -- The ideal victim -- The non-ideal victim -- The ideal and the not-so-ideal offender -- Ideal victims, real victims and scared victims -- Victims and social conditions -- Part 1. Exploring the 'Ideal Victim' -- 1. The ideal victim through other(s') eyes -- Stereotypes and moral typecasting -- The justice motive and framing -- Conclusion -- 2. Creating ideal victims in hate crime policy -- Introduction -- Constructing hate crime policy -- The victim's weakness -- Engagement in a respectable project -- Blamelessness -- The big and bad offender -- The unknown offender -- Power and influence -- Constructing deserving victims -- Concluding thoughts -- 3. The lived experiences of veiled Muslim women as 'undeserving' victims of Islamophobia -- Introduction -- Stigmatisation of veiled Muslim women -- State policies criminalising the wearing of the veil -- The research study -- Secondary victimisation in the criminal justice system -- Conclusion -- 4. Being 'ideal' or falling short? The legitimacy of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender victims of domestic violence and hate crime -- Introduction -- Christie's ideal victims and offenders: binaries and blind spots -- Less-than-ideal victims: LGB and/or T people experiencing DVA -- Problematising a femininity predicated on victimhood -- LGB and/or T hate crime victimisation -- Conclusion -- 5. New victimisations: female sex worker hate crime and the 'ideal victim' -- New victimisations and the inclusion of the non-ideal victim into the criminal justice process.

Defining victims - the multiple identities of female sex workers -- New victimisations - hate crime and hate crime laws -- New victimisations - female sex workers and hate crime -- The ideal victim concept -- 6. The 'ideal migrant victim' in human rights courts: between vulnerability and otherness -- Who are the vulnerable migrants? -- Idealising a vulnerable migrant victim -- Challenging vulnerability: a doubly exclusionary mechanism? -- Exclusion by misrecognition -- Exclusion by recognition -- Conclusion: rescuing vulnerability? -- 7. 'Our most precious possession of all'1: the survivor of non-recent childhood sexual abuse as the ideal victim? -- Introduction -- The recognition of legitimate suffering -- The monstrous abuser -- Contesting the 'ideal' status of victims of non-recent childhood sexual abuse -- Conclusion -- 8. 'Idealising' domestic violence victims -- Introduction -- Domestic violence victimisation and prevention -- The Domestic Violence Disclosure Scheme -- Victim responsibilisation -- Attributing blame -- Risk enhancement -- Conclusion: contradictions to the 'ideal victim' concept -- 9. Environmental crime, victimisation, and the ideal victim -- Introduction -- The victim in the context of environmental justice -- Defining victimisation: workers and communities as non-ideal victims -- Corporations as monsters and non-ideal offenders -- Victimisation from environmental governance -- Conclusion -- Part 2. Exploring the 'Non-Ideal' Victim -- 10. Revisiting the non-ideal victim -- Introduction -- Christie's (non-)ideal -- Expanding the concept of the non-ideal -- Qualitative evidence -- Psychological explanations -- Conclusion -- 11. Conceptualising victims of anti-social behaviour is far from 'ideal' -- Introduction -- Contextualising and understanding ASB victimisation -- Conceptualising victims of 'personal' anti-social behaviour.

Conceptualising communities as victims of anti-social behaviour -- Concluding thoughts -- 12. The 'ideal' rape victim and the elderly woman: a contradiction in terms? -- Introduction -- Background -- The 'real-rape' stereotype and the 'ideal victim' -- The 'ideal' older rape victim -- Challenging the stereotype -- Conclusion -- 13. Denying victim status to online fraud victims: the challenges of being a 'non-ideal victim' -- Introduction -- Defining a 'victim' -- A brief history of victimology and the 'ideal' victim -- Online fraud in context -- Applying the 'ideal victim' framework -- Summary of the five characteristics in the context of online fraud -- The implications of 'non-ideal' victim status -- Conclusion -- 14. Male prisoners' vulnerabilities and the ideal victim concept -- Introduction -- Male prisoners, vulnerability and victim status -- Male prisoners as vulnerable -- Victims of structural violence -- Conclusion -- 15. A decade after Lynndie: non-ideal victims of non-ideal offenders - doubly anomalised, doubly invisibilised -- Introduction -- The ideal victim - new concept, old construct, enduring problem: the ideal victim binary/ies as a normative taxonomy -- The ideal victim taxonomy and discursive equilibrium: the stubborn persistence of the gendered binary in sexual violence -- Concluding thoughts -- 16. Towards an inclusive victimology and a new understanding of public compassion to victims: from and beyond Christie's ideal victim -- Introduction -- Human suffering, compassion and crime victims -- Which victims? The 'ideal victim' as an object of compassion -- Politics of compassion -- Taking compassion seriously: new paths for victimology -- Some concluding thoughts: towards a more inclusive victimology -- Conclusion -- Index.

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.

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