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 effect change
- Examines how victims are understood, represented and incorporated across the criminal justice system and society
- Captures the newest developments in the dynamic victimology space, following changes in policy and politics
- Discusses how activism has greatly contributed to growth of the Victimology discipline
- Analyses how victimology, theories, and research inform policies and professional practice
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jacki Tapley is Principal Lecturer of Criminology at the University of Portsmouth, UK. She specialises in teaching and undertaking research focussing on victims of crime, and the development, implementation and evaluation of victim-centred policies and legislation.
Pamela Davies is Professor of Criminology at the University of Northumbria, UK. Pam has longstanding research interests in the area of social harm and victimisation with a particular focus on how, where and when gender matters.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victimology
Book Subtitle: Research, Policy and Activism
Editors: Jacki Tapley, Pamela Davies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42288-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-42287-5Published: 02 July 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-42288-2Published: 01 July 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 408
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Popular Science in Law, Victimology, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Social Work and Community Development, Forensic Psychology, Human Rights and Crime