This innovative collection presents original theoretical and empirical research on criminal victimization. The first part of the book challenges stereotypical conceptions of victimization, focusing on non-traditional victims of crime, such as male victims of domestic violence, victims of male-on-male rape, institutional victims and the "victim-offenders" who are recipients of IRA punishment beatings. The second part of the volume considers criminal justice responses to victimization. Chapters examine the perspectives of victims who become involved in court, probation and restorative processes. This book will further debate on how we conceptualize victims and their appropriate role in the criminal justice system.
Author(s): Carolyn Hoyle, Richard Young
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 257
Half Title Page......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Title verso......Page 5
Preface......Page 6
Contents......Page 10
Notes on Contributors......Page 12
INTRODUCTION......Page 14
SOME LIMITATIONS OF KNOWLEDGE ABOUT VICTIMS......Page 24
THE PROBLEM OF IDENTITY......Page 26
CONCLUSION......Page 35
INTRODUCTION......Page 36
THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL LIMITATIONS OF EXISTING STUDIES......Page 37
GENERATING A SAMPLE......Page 40
DEFINING RAPE......Page 42
DEVELOPING A TYPOLOGY OF MALE RAPE......Page 48
THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS......Page 58
INTRODUCTION......Page 62
THE HOODS: PERPETRATORS AND VICTIMS......Page 67
THE INFORMAL SYSTEM OF POLICING AND ‘PUNISHMENT’ IN WESTBELFAST......Page 72
THE PHYSICAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF PPAS......Page 76
CONCLUSION......Page 81
INTRODUCTION......Page 84
THE EVIDENCE OF FEMALE-ON-MALE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE......Page 85
FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON DOMESTIC ABUSE......Page 90
POLICE DISCRETION AND ORGANISATIONAL RULES......Page 95
THE STUDY......Page 98
CONCLUSIONS......Page 108
INTRODUCTION......Page 110
RECENT ATTEMPTS TO INTEGRATE VICTIMS INTO THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM......Page 111
THERAPEUTIC BENEFITS TO VICTIMS FROM THEIR ROLE IN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE......Page 120
CHALLENGING STEREOTYPES......Page 123
SECURING REPARATION FOR VICTIMS......Page 125
EXPLAINING THE GAP......Page 128
CLOSING THE GAP IN APPROACH: THE QUESTION OF RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES......Page 138
CONCLUSION: TOWARDS VICTIM EMPOWERMENT......Page 142
INTRODUCTION......Page 146
CRIME AGAINST CORPORATIONS......Page 149
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE LITERATURE: KEEPING QUIET ABOUT BIG BAD CORPORATIONS?......Page 159
WHEN HARRY MET SAINSBURY’S: CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON CORPORATIONS IN RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PROCESSES......Page 167
CONCLUSION......Page 184
INTRODUCTION......Page 186
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE VICTIM TO THE TRIAL......Page 188
THE PROSECUTION’S CONSTRUCTION OF VICTIMS......Page 193
THE DEFENCE’S CONSTRUCTION OF VICTIMS......Page 202
CONCLUSION......Page 208
INTRODUCTION......Page 210
VICTIM PARTICIPATION AND THE ADVERSARIAL SYSTEM......Page 211
AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE......Page 216
THE ‘RIGHTS’ OF VICTIMS IN RELATION TO ‘THEIR’ CASES......Page 224
CONCLUSION: SOCIAL EXCLUSION V SOCIAL INCLUSION......Page 234
Bibliography......Page 236
