Revisiting the 'ideal victim' : developments in critical victimology / edited by Marian Duggan.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Duggan, Marian, editor.

Series:

Policy Press scholarship online.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christie, Nils, 1928-2015.

Christie, Nils.

Victims of crimes.

Victims of crimes--Legal status, laws, etc.

Offenses against religion--Law and legislation.

Offenses against religion.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 322 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Policy Press, 2018.

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.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

List of abbreviations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword: thinking beyond the ideal

Preface

Introduction

The Ideal Victim

Exploring the ‘Ideal Victim’

The ideal victim through other(s’) eyes

Creating ideal victims in hate crime policy

The lived experiences of veiled Muslim women as ‘undeserving’ victims of Islamophobia

Being ‘ideal’ or falling short? The legitimacy of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender victims of domestic violence and hate crime

New victimisations: female sex worker hate crime and the ‘ideal victim’

The ‘ideal migrant victim’ in human rights courts: between vulnerability and otherness

‘Our most precious possession of all’: the survivor of non-recent childhood sexual abuse as the ideal victim?

‘Idealising’ domestic violence victims

Environmental crime, victimisation, and the ideal victim

Exploring the ‘Non-Ideal’ Victim

Revisiting the non-ideal victim

Conceptualising victims of antisocial behaviour is far from ‘ideal’

The ‘ideal’ rape victim and the elderly woman: a contradiction in terms?

Denying victim status to online fraud victims: the challenges of being a ‘non-ideal victim’

Male prisoners’ vulnerabilities and the ideal victim concept

A decade after Lynndie: non-ideal victims of non-ideal offenders – doubly anomalised, doubly invisibilised

Towards an inclusive victimology and a new understanding of public compassion to victims: from and beyond Christie’s ideal victim

Conclusion

Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4473-3916-9

1-4473-3918-5

1-4473-3915-0

OCLC:

1043395056