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A Victim CommunityIntroduction

A Victim Community: Introduction [This chapter introduces the notion of the ‘victim community’ as a globally pertinent issue that requires theoretical and empirical attention within victimology. Drawing on a range of historical and international cases from Europe, North America and beyond, this introductory chapter is grounded within an international and national context of communities that have experienced harm, suffering and violence. High-profile crime events such as the Oslo and Utoya terrorist attacks carried out by the Anders Breivik in 2011, numerous incidences of school shootings in the United States as exampled by Columbine (1999) and Sandy Hook (2012) and the Paris attacks in January 2015 are all historically recent examples of events as forms of victimisation, which have impact on and consequences for our study of identity, collective victimisation, stigma and resilience. This chapter sets up the ‘cultural’ turn in victimology and also introduces an appreciation of the impact of late modernity in the facilitation of ‘victim’ and ‘community’ identities.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-87678-4
Pages
1 –20
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-87679-1_1
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Abstract

[This chapter introduces the notion of the ‘victim community’ as a globally pertinent issue that requires theoretical and empirical attention within victimology. Drawing on a range of historical and international cases from Europe, North America and beyond, this introductory chapter is grounded within an international and national context of communities that have experienced harm, suffering and violence. High-profile crime events such as the Oslo and Utoya terrorist attacks carried out by the Anders Breivik in 2011, numerous incidences of school shootings in the United States as exampled by Columbine (1999) and Sandy Hook (2012) and the Paris attacks in January 2015 are all historically recent examples of events as forms of victimisation, which have impact on and consequences for our study of identity, collective victimisation, stigma and resilience. This chapter sets up the ‘cultural’ turn in victimology and also introduces an appreciation of the impact of late modernity in the facilitation of ‘victim’ and ‘community’ identities.]

Published: Dec 14, 2021

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