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4.5 - Victimology and Victim Interventions

from Part IV - Interventions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2021

Jennifer M. Brown
Affiliation:
London School of Economics and Political Science
Miranda A. H. Horvath
Affiliation:
University of Suffolk
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Summary

This chapter explores the complex ways in which victimological ideas have driven the nature of victim centred policy interventions over recent decades. These interventions have emerged in three interconnected phases with three different foci: the welfare model, the good practice model, and the therapeutic justice model. The chapter reviews these policy phases charting the shift evidenced within them from a narrative focused on the understanding who the victim might be toa narrative focused on what the experience of trauma might be. In analysing this shift the chapter suggests that the increasingly blurred boundaries between different understandings of victimhood (a victimized individual/group or a traumatised individual/group) both of which are differently embedded in the policy interventions discussed which have resulted in policies which suffer from the problem of implementation failure alongside a failure to understand the nature of the adversarial criminal justice system itself.

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