1st Edition

Conceptualising the Victim Child Criminal Exploitation and Processes of Victim Identification

By Hannah Marshall Copyright 2027
190 Pages
by Routledge

Drawing on empirical research that examines how processes of victim identification unfold in relation to cases of child criminal exploitation in the UK, the book explores four different qualities of the concept ‘victim’. Specifically, the book provides ways of thinking about the concept of ‘victim’ as: incorporeal, in that efforts to convert victim recognition into meaningful impact are often... Read more

1. Introduction 2. A Short History of Victim Identification 3. Becoming Victims 4. The Incorporeal Victim 5. The Victim Offender Binary 6. Relational Victimhood 7. The Precarity of Victim Status 8. Abolish the Victim 9. Victimological Futures

Biography

Hannah Marshall is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. Her research interests include victimology, policing, social justice, and youth justice.