Handbook of Victims and Victimology

Name: Handbook of Victims and Victimology
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138889453
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The Handbook of Victims and Victimology, in its second edition, presents a thoroughly revised and updated collection of essays by internationally recognised scholars and practitioners. Divided into five parts, it explores contemporary developments and enduring issues in victimology, the diverse experiences of victims shaped by gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality and intersectionality, policy responses to victimhood, comparative perspectives from Europe, Australia and Asia, and expanding definitions of victimhood. Featuring new chapters on intersectionality, child victims, sexuality, hate crime and crimes of the powerful, this handbook offers a comprehensive and international focus on cutting-edge topics within victimology.
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Ideal for students, academics, scholars, policy makers, and professionals working within victim support environments, this handbook serves as an essential reference for those studying or engaged in victimology and related fields within education and social policy.

Building on the success of the previous edition, this book will provide an international focus on cutting-edge issues in the field of victimology and will feature new chapters on intersectionality, sexuality, crimes of the powerful and hate crime, as well as psychological perspectives.

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This second edition of the Handbook of Victims and Victimology presents a comprehensively revised and updated set of essays, bringing together internationally recognised scholars and practitioners to offer substantial research-informed overviews within their specialist fields of investigation.

This handbook is divided into five parts, with each part addressing a different theme within victimology:

Part I offers a scene-setting exploration of new developments in the field, enduring issues that remain relatively unchanged, and the gaps and traps within the contemporary victimological agenda.
Part II examines the complex dimensions of victim experiences as structured by gender, age, ethnicity, sexuality, and intersectionality.
Part III reflects on the problems and possibilities of formulating policy responses in light of the changing appreciation of the nature and extent of victimhood.
Part IV focuses on the value of a comparative lens and the problems and possibilities of victim policies when seen through this lens, explored along three geographical axes: Europe, Australia, and Asia.
Part V considers other ways of thinking about who counts as a victim and what counts as victimhood, extending the boundaries of the victimological imagination outward.

Building on the success of the previous edition, this book provides an international focus on cutting-edge issues in the field of victimology. Including brand new chapters on intersectionality, child victims, sexuality, hate crime, and crimes of the powerful, this handbook is essential reading for students and academics studying victims and victimology and an essential reference tool for those working within the victim support environment.

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Praised as "essential reading for anyone seeking a contemporary critical understanding of victimology," this anthology offers a broad range of important topics relevant to policy and practice, according to Walter S. DeKeseredy, Professor of Sociology at West Virginia University, USA. Matthew Hall, Professor of Law & Criminal Justice at the University of Lincoln, UK, describes it as a "significant contribution to victimological scholarship" that extends the field's reach and raises fundamental questions about society’s response to harm and risk. The collection is noted for being comprehensive and compelling.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781138889453

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 27 July 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Routledge

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 8 Tables, black and white; 10 Line drawings, black and white; 10 Illustrations, black and white

Contributors:

Edited by Sandra Walklate

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 174.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 840g

Pages: 394

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About the Author

Sandra Walklate is Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at Liverpool University. In 2016 she was appointed as conjoint Professor of Criminology at the University of Monash, Melbourne, Australia, working with colleagues there as part of their Gender and Family Violence Research Focus Program. She also holds an adjunct professorial role at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Brisbane, Australia (2015–2018).