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An International Perspective on Contemporary Developments in Victimology
This festschrift in honor of the work and legacy of Dr. Marc Groenhuijsen provides an international and holistic overview of recent developments in victimology, taking a global scope but grounded in everyday experiences of victims. Its multidisciplinary perspective reflects a range of approaches and practices in victimology, including contributions from the fields of social work, criminology, sociology, psychology, and law. Firstly, the volume introduces new perspectives in victimology, and then analyzes different forms of victimization in countries worldwide. It gives special attention to victims’ rights and participation in the criminal justice system, detailing victim-centered approaches to justice through practices such as restorative justice and restitution. Highlighting the growth and development of victimology from a specialization in criminology to an academic discipline in its own right, this book reflects the range of approaches and depth of scholarship in the field. This will be an essential resource to students of victimology, researchers, policy makers, and victim’s advocates.
Criminal Justice in America [2 volumes]
This authoritative set provides a comprehensive overview of issues and trends in crime, law enforcement, courts, and corrections that encompass the field of criminal justice studies in the United States. This work offers a thorough introduction to the field of criminal justice, including types of crime; policing; courts and sentencing; landmark legal decisions; and local, state, and federal corrections systems—and the key topics and issues within each of these important areas. It provides a complete overview and understanding of the many terms, jobs, procedures, and issues surrounding this growing field of study. Another major focus of the work is to examine ethical questions related to po...
Imagining Far-right Terrorism
Imagining Far-right Terrorism explores far-right terrorism as an object of the narrative imagination in contemporary Western Europe. Western European societies are generally reluctant to think of far-right and racist violence as terrorism, but the reasons for this remain little understood. This book focuses on the extraordinarily complex case of the National Socialist Underground (NSU) in Germany, and high-profile instances of racist violence in Sweden and Norway. The author analyses the narratives surrounding far-right and racist violence, drawing on a broad range of empirical sources. Her account attributes the limits of imagining violence as far-right terrorism to elite practices of narra...
Viktimologie des Menschenhandels im Kontext von Migration und Flucht
Menschenhandel findet auch außerhalb des Kontextes von Migration und Flucht statt. Dennoch bergen das Vorhandensein fluchtrelevanter Gründe oder migrationsspezifische Prozesse besondere Risiken, die tatbegehenden Personen durch Ausnutzung der Migrationsmotive potenzieller Opfer in die Karten spielen. Tobias Hinz wirft daher einen Blick auf die Viktimisierungsprozesse und versucht der Problematik unter Hinzuziehung verschiedener Perspektiven und Aspekte nachzugehen. Hierzu führt er in den ersten Kapiteln zunächst in die Thematik "Menschenhandel" ein und erklärt dessen Definition und Phänomenologie. Im weiteren Verlauf erfolgt eine Darstellung relevanter aufenthalts- und asylrechtlicher Grundlagen, ergänzt durch daraus resultierende migrations- und fluchtspezifische Einflussfaktoren. Nach einer Erläuterung etablierter viktimologischer Grundlagen und Theorien stellt der Autor seine eigene Theorie zur Erklärung des Opferverhaltens dar.
Restorative Justice
Gibt es für die notwendige Transformation unserer Gesellschaft eine Theorie, die sozialen Frieden anstrebt und Menschenrechte in den Mittelpunkt stellt? Im vorliegenden Buch verdeutlicht Otmar Hagemann, der sich als Soziologe, Viktimologe und Kriminologe versteht, sein Konzept der heilenden Gerechtigkeit (Restorative Justice) gleichermaßen als Theorie, Paradigma und Philosophie auf dem Weg zu einer Restorative Society. Der Begriff stammt von deutschen Theologen, wird heute häufig als Alternative zur strafrechtlichen Konfliktbearbeitung oder als dritter Weg zwischen Strafe und Behandlung in modernen Gesellschaften verstanden, sollte aber möglichst als Konzept auf allen Ebenen aller Lebens...
Staying Alive While Living the Life
In Staying Alive While Living the Life, Sue-Ann MacDonald and Benjamin Roebuck unpack the realities of living on the streets from the perspective of homeless youth. While much is written about at-risk youth, most literature on youth homelessness reduces their lives to flattened images with little room for the diverse, complex and individual nature of their experiences. Challenging the dominant youth-at-risk conversation by putting forward a framework of survival and resilience, MacDonald and Roebuck illustrate the ways that young people who experience homelessness demonstrate tremendous resilience when facing adversity, social exclusion and various forms of oppression. Drawing on conversations with homeless youth, this book focuses both on the external constraints imposed on their lives as well as the ways young people understand their circumstances and their approaches to problem solving. The result is a nuanced analysis that puts human agency at its centre, allowing readers to explore the challenges young people face and the internal and external resources they draw upon when making decisions about their lives.
