Revisiting the 'ideal victim' : developments in critical victimology /
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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Bristol :
Policy Press,
2018.
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Table of 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
- Conclusion2. 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 crimeIntroduction; 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 workersNew 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
