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Justice for Victims

Perspectives on rights, transition and reconciliation

Antony Pemberton editor Inge Vanfraechem editor Felix Ndahinda editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:17th Jun '14

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Justice for Victims brings together the world’s leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimization in a pioneering international collection. This book focuses on the current study of victims of crime, combining both legal and social-scientific perspectives, articulating both in new directions and questioning whether victims really do have more rights in our modern world.

This book offers an interdisciplinary approach, covering large-scale (political) victimization, terrorist victimization, sexual victimization and routine victimization. Split into three sections, this book provides in-depth coverage of: victims' rights, transitional justice and victims' perspectives, and trauma, resilience and justice. Victims' rights are conceptualised in the human rights framework and discussed in relation to supranational, international and regional policies. The transitional justice section covers victims of war from those caught between peace and justice, as well as post-conflict justice. The final section focuses on post-traumatic stress, connecting psychological and anthropological perceptions in analysing collective violence, mass victimization and trauma.

This book addresses challenging and new issues in the field of victimology and the study of transitional and restorative justice. As such, it will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students interested in the fields of victimology, transitional justice, restorative justice and trauma work.

"This books provides a must read overview of current issues in the emerging new discipline of victimology."

Jan Van Dijk, Hoogleraar Pieter van Vollenhoven Chair in Victimology, Human Security and Safety, Tilburg University and winner of the 2012 Stockholm Prize in Criminology


‘This book is imaginative, ambitious, state of the art, interdisciplinary and international and has futuristic reflections on justice for victims.’ - Dr Pamela Davies, Teaching Fellow and Director of Criminology, Northumbria University, UK

Justice for Victims is an anthology that should be in university libraries across the world. It provides an impressive smorgasbord of writings from some known scholars, but also many new scholars whose contributions to Victimology can now be easily accessed. It covers rights for victims, justice in countries in transition, and issues of reconciliation between oppressors and oppressed.’ - Irvin Waller, President, International Organization for Victim Assistance and Professor, University of Ottawa, Canada

ISBN: 9780415634335

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 950g

426 pages