Overview: Speaks to upper undergraduates and above, as well as to criminal justice practitioners, with case studies for discussion.Encourages critical thinking about victims of crime and social harm and how to This book explores what victimology, as both an academic discipline and an activist movement, has achieved since its initial conception in the 1940s, from a variety of experts’ perspectives. Focussing on nine, dynamic and contemporary case studies covering topics like violence against women and girls, bereaved family activism, and environmental victims and climate change activists, each
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