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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"victimology"”.
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Intimate Partner Violence Victimology: Factors Affecting Victim Engagement with the Police and Criminal Justice System
The thesis concerns an examination of victim engagement with the police investigation of domestic abuse. Notwithstanding the huge efforts being made in tackling the problem by police forces across the UK, national inspections still find that the services provided to victims are “not good enough” …
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"Our Generation Had Nothing to Do with Discrimination": White Southern Memory of Jim Crow and Civil Rights
… In this work I propose the concepts white victimology, white protectionism, and white moral identity. I argue that white victimology ? whites' perception, largely imagined, of their own racial victimization ? is a major ideological and emotional facet of the white racial frame, whereby …
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Victimisation of street children in Addis Ababa: factors of resilience and susceptibility
… children. Theoretically this work is informed by victimology. Concepts shared by victimology and rational choice perspective are discussed, after Fattah (1993a). Victim surveys are described, highlighting their accuracy of crime estimates. Juvenile prostitution, runaways and rape are examined, …
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Awakening from androcentrism: calls for measurement of gender and sexuality in criminology
… lacking, and within the field of criminology and victimology calls for inclusivity have not been fully heeded.
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The Voices of Victimhood and Survivorship
… studies, English studies, criminology, law, victimology studies, psychology, and violence philosophy- all collaborating interdisciplinarity in the interest of a feminist hermeneutic. These disciplines synthesize the key concepts and theories to be discussed, including the meaning of voice, …
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The international criminal court: justice for victims of international crimes?
… law and human rights law as well as victimology, so as to guide later analysis. The decisions of previous international criminal tribunals are also assessed to provide a historical background to developments at the ICC. Examination of the proceedings and outcomes of the ICC is carried …
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The Construction of Victimhood in Human Trafficking Intervention Courts
… from broader theories regarding interpretivism, victimology, labeling theory, social constructionism, feminist institutionalism and criminology, carceral feminism and protectionism and standpoint theory, and I employed multiple methods of qualitative data collection in New York, NY, Columbus, OH, …
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Child Criminal Exploitation, County Lines & Victim Identification: An Exploratory Study
… step towards establishing a ‘critical youth victimology’, which engages with young people’s experiences of processes of victim identification. With regard to policy and practice, this thesis demonstrates that, because they so often fail, processes of victim identification do not adequately …
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Firearm fatalities examined at Salt River Medico-Legal Laboratory in 2009 and their investigative outcome by 2014
… University of Cape Town conducted a study on the victimology and investigative outcomes of firearm deaths of 1999 in the Salt River Medico - Legal Laboratory drainage area. There were some compelling results, including a remarkably low conviction rate of 7.21%. In 2000 new legislation was enacted, …
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Invisible presences: the routine processing of the lay prosecution witness in the English and Welsh criminal justice system
… on their experiences under the broad stance of ‘Victimology’ (see, for example, Shapland et al., 1985, Maguire and Pointing, 1988). It appeared, however, that there were few references directly on lay witnesses (but see, Ash, 1972, Raine and Smith, 1991, Rock, 1993, 1994, Maynard, …
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WAR CRIME VICTIMIZATION EXPERIENCES OF SRI LANKAN TAMIL MAKAL: A QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS
Researchers have given considerable attention to war crimes across nations. Numerous anthropologists, political scientists, and economists have conducted research on the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka; however, there is scant literature exploring violations of international law as experienced by the …
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What is the prevalence of intimate partner violence disclosed during routine screening in a large general practice in provincial New Zealand?
… understanding of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) victimology in terms of age, ethnicity, gender, willingness to disclose and the level of danger posed by each situation allows for the meaningful provision of intervention services such as women’s refuge or the police. This research aimed to explore …
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Ireland’s criminal justice system and its response to victims of crime with intellectual disabilities: adversarial procedure on trial
This thesis explores the manner in which the Irish criminal process addresses the specific needs of victims of crime with intellectual disabilities. By critically analysing the evolution of the adversarial legal tradition, it interrogates the epistemic values which have traditionally been at the …
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Restorative justice as an alternative dispute resolution model: opinions of victims of crime and criminal justice professionals in Nigeria
This is an original non-experimental research conducted in four Geo-Political Zones in Nigeria (West Africa). It surveys opinions of victims of crime and conflicts, and criminal justice professionals with regard to exploring restorative justice as an Alternative Dispute Resolution Model in the …
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Foreign object insertion in sexual homicide cases : an exploratory study
Foreign object insertion into the vagina of a murder victim is a rare occurrence. When it is encountered it is often seen as an indicator of a sexual murder, or regarded for signature analysis purposes. Due to its rare occurrence it is often only documented in literature in case-study form. In this …
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Kränkning och upprättelse : En rättssociologisk studie av kränkningsersättning till brottsoffer
The thesis takes its starting point in the question of how damages for violation of crime is determined. This type of non-pecuniary damages to crime victims has a fundamental uncertainty regarding the computation of damages and what is really meant by “violation” in the meaning of the law. There is …