Victims’ rights: serving victims or the criminal justice system? An empirical study on victims of violent crime and their experiences with the Danish police

Holmberg, Lars; Johansen, Lykke; Asmussen, Ida Helene; Birkmose, Sofie Meldal; Adrian, Lin

doi:10.1080/01924036.2020.1719525

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“…From the standpoint of support providers, research shows that the way individuals are viewed as victims affects how the support providers act (Burcar and Åkerström, 2009;Holmberg et al, 2020;Tennent, 2019aTennent, , 2019b. For example, Burcar and Åkerström (2009) illustrate this in a Swedish context by quoting a respondent who states that the information about support to victims did not seem to include him; it seemed to focus on female victims of rape (for similar results from Denmark, see Holmberg et al, 2020). This would suggest that a certain image of the victim is conveyed by support providers, making others feel excluded.…”

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“…The Victims' Rights Movement gained momentum worldwide during the 1970s and generated an increasing number of rights related to support which professionals need to consider and navigate in their support provision (Holmberg et al, 2020). In Sweden and Denmark, for example, victimization does not need to be defined as a crime in accordance with the national penal code in order for the victim to receive support; that is, the victim does not need to wait for the police to determine if a crime has taken place before getting access to support.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Although this is possible, both due to the flexible nature of the guidelines for informing crime victims about the victim counseling service (i.e. mandatory conditions) (Holmberg et al, 2020) and because some victims might not want to engage in co-production activities (i.e. service user conditions), it is essential to leave the decision up to the victims themselves (Thunberg, 2022).…”

Section: Combining Victimological and Organizational Perspectives On ...mentioning

confidence: 99%

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Navigating professionals’ conditions for co-production of victim support: A conceptual article

Jensen

2023

International Review of Victimology

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From previous research it is well known that victimization can have various short- and long-term consequences resulting in a need for support to cope with the victimization. Research also shows, however, that not all victims of crime seek or receive support. One cause of this might be the conditions and constraints that affect professionals’ matching of support services with individual victims’ needs. The purpose of the present conceptual paper is to discuss how professionals can co-produce support services with the individual victim and if needed engage suitable external organizations for the purpose of adapting support services to the individual victim’s needs, while also considering the complex field of constraints that professionals need to navigate during this process. The paper makes two main contributions. First, it conceptualizes the complex field of constraints as consisting of five sets of conditions (mandatory, local, professional, support-user, and inter-organizational conditions), which professionals must navigate during the co-production of victim support services. Second, the paper suggests a seven-step process of how professionals can navigate this complex field during co-production of victim support services’ activities with the individual victim, and potentially those of external organizations as well.

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Section: The Perception Of Supportmentioning

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Navigating professionals’ conditions for co-production of victim support: A conceptual article

Jensen

2023

International Review of Victimology

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“…In the following sections, we analyse the behaviour of police officers, prosecutors, victims’ counsel and judges exclusively in relation to victims and their emotional expressions, and we refer to our article (Holmberg et al, 2020) for a complementary perspective on victims’ own experiences with the police. In doing so, we have set the investigative scope of this research: rather than considering a more general professional self-understanding and its institutional logics, it provides insight into both distinctions and overlaps between these four different professional/institutional assessments of victims of violence and their perceived emotional needs.…”

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“…In this article, we thus focus exclusively on institutional perspectives. Our analyses of victims’ own experiences with the police, as well as their sense of procedural justice, can be found in Adrian et al (2020) and Holmberg et al (2020).…”

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The power of professional ideals: Understanding and handling victims’ emotions in criminal cases

Johansen

Adrian

Asmussen

et al. 2022

International Review of Victimology

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This article explores how criminal justice actors interpret and process victims’ emotional expressions. On the basis of a qualitative study on the interactions between legal institutions and victims of violence in Denmark, the article demonstrates how police officers, prosecutors, victims’ counsel and judges each separately understand and evaluate victims’ emotional reactions. These actors interpret victims’ feelings according to their own professional roles and motivations so as to gain an overview of a case and the actions required of them in relation to it, resulting in quite different perceptions of victims’ needs and degree of trustworthiness. At the same time, professionals also interact across institutions by writing and exchanging case files, and in so doing police officers’ perceptions of victim reactions are often disclosed to both prosecutors and judges. This article contributes to existing knowledge of how different professional ideals specifically influence the handling of victims and their emotional needs, while the more general consensus on ‘appropriate emotions’ simultaneously generates knowledge across professions and institutional settings.

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Guest Editors’ Introduction: Europe as a Comparative Site on Victim Participation in Criminal Justice

Holder,

Elbers,

Antonsdóttir

2024

Int Criminol

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Victims’ rights: serving victims or the criminal justice system? An empirical study on victims of violent crime and their experiences with the Danish police

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Navigating professionals’ conditions for co-production of victim support: A conceptual article

Navigating professionals’ conditions for co-production of victim support: A conceptual article

The power of professional ideals: Understanding and handling victims’ emotions in criminal cases

Guest Editors’ Introduction: Europe as a Comparative Site on Victim Participation in Criminal Justice

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