Positivist Victimology: A Critique Part 2: Critical Victimology

Miers, David

doi:10.1177/026975809000100301

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“…Critical victimology has been differently interpreted by different people (Holstein, Miller, 1990;Miers, 1990;Fattah, 1992;Mawby, Walklate, 1994). Influenced by the questions raised by feminist informed work and the theorising of Giddens (1984) the critical victimology favoured by this author endeavours to understand the victim as a product of the interaction between the cultural and the ideological under particular socio-economic circumstances.…”

Section: Setting the Agenda For A Critical-cultural Victimologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Nils Christie: On the periphery but in the centre

Walkate

2016

Temida

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N ils Christie's contribution to criminology and victimology has been profound.This article traces the roots of contemporary concerns with critical and cultural victimology to his work. Alongside this his insightful comments on public criminology also have some resonance with current victimological pre-occupations. It is evident from this analysis that without his voice some of the contemporary concerns of critically informed and engaged victimology would be absent, for which we owe him a huge debt.

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Section: Setting the Agenda For A Critical-cultural Victimologymentioning

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Nils Christie: On the periphery but in the centre

Walkate

2016

Temida

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“…A national hate crime victimization survey was administered by Ipsos MORI in 2012 and interviews with victims were conducted by a university based researcher in 2012/13. The victimization survey, dubbed by Miers (1989) as the exemplar of positivist victimology, is a widely used and adequate tool for capturing data about hate crimes that occur in public and in private. However, these instruments are limited in capturing all types of victim and experience.…”

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Hate Crime Victimization in Wales

Williams¹,

Tregidga²

2014

CRIMIN

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This paper presents findings from the All Wales Hate Crime Project. Most hate crime research has focused on discrete victim types in isolation. For the first time, internationally, this paper examines the psychological and physical impacts of hate crime across seven victim types drawing on quantitative and qualitative data. It contributes to the hate crime debate in two significant ways: (1) it provides the first look at the problem in Wales and (2) it provides the first multi-victim-type analysis of hate crime, showing that impacts are not homogenous across victim groups. The paper provides empirical credibility to the impacts felt by hate crime victims on the margins who have routinely struggled to gain support.

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“…Another tendency within the victimology literature is to make the label of 'the victim' the ultimate referent for inquiry (see for example , Miers 1990;Holstein and Miller 1990). While this is not necessarily problematic, there is a tendency to gloss over the actual traumatic experience of the event of victimization and proceed to the processes by which those victimized take on the label of the victim (for an exception, see Kenney 2009).…”

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Event and Victimization

Spencer

2010

Criminal Law, Philosophy

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This article contributes to recent existentialist interventions in critical criminology (see Lippens and Crewe 2009) and offers the existential concept of 'event' as a guiding image for critical victimology. Whereas existential criminologists have examined crime and wrongdoing, very little attention has been given to victimization. I utilize the existential phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and Claude Romano to offer a critique of existing approaches to victimization within mainstream criminology and develop an evential analytic to understand the event of victimization. This paper brings together existential philosophy and victimology to offer an alternative approach to victimization. I engage with the 'problem of number' in conventional victimology and offer a critique of quantitative approaches to victimization based on the unsubstitutability and singularity of existence. Through a discussion of selfhood and embodiment from an evential standpoint, this paper moves beyond existing victimological approaches to identity. I also consider the relationship between victimization and trauma. In the final section of the paper I carve out an alternative research agenda through a discussion of bearing witness and events of victimization.

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Positivist Victimology: A Critique Part 2: Critical Victimology

Cited by 57 publications

References 44 publications

Nils Christie: On the periphery but in the centre

Nils Christie: On the periphery but in the centre

Hate Crime Victimization in Wales

Event and Victimization

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