Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Forensic Psychology
- Part I Psychological Underpinnings
- Part II Psychology and Criminal Behaviour
- Part III Assessment
- Part IV Interventions
- 4.1 Forensic Mental Health Interventions
- 4.2 Restorative Justice
- 4.3 Treatment of Persons with Sexual Offense Histories
- 4.4 Strength-Based Approaches to Addiction Recovery and Desistance from Crime
- 4.5 Victimology and Victim Interventions
- 4.6 Interventions with Violent Offenders
- 4.7 Women Offenders
- 4.8 Preventing Delinquency and Later Criminal Offending
- Part V Civil Proceedings
- Part VI Professional Practices
- Index
- References
4.5 - Victimology and Victim Interventions
from Part IV - Interventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2021
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- Forensic Psychology
- Part I Psychological Underpinnings
- Part II Psychology and Criminal Behaviour
- Part III Assessment
- Part IV Interventions
- 4.1 Forensic Mental Health Interventions
- 4.2 Restorative Justice
- 4.3 Treatment of Persons with Sexual Offense Histories
- 4.4 Strength-Based Approaches to Addiction Recovery and Desistance from Crime
- 4.5 Victimology and Victim Interventions
- 4.6 Interventions with Violent Offenders
- 4.7 Women Offenders
- 4.8 Preventing Delinquency and Later Criminal Offending
- Part V Civil Proceedings
- Part VI Professional Practices
- Index
- References
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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- The Cambridge Handbook of Forensic Psychology , pp. 569 - 582Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021