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A Victim CommunityThe Paradoxes and Contradictions of ‘Victim’ and ‘Community’

A Victim Community: The Paradoxes and Contradictions of ‘Victim’ and ‘Community’ [This chapter gives a background and context to our understanding of ‘victim communities’. It considers victimhood and identity, by exploring the classic interactionist works regarding labelling (Becker, 1963) and stigma and spoiled identity (Goffman, 1963), extrapolating how they may be refracted to scrutinise victimisation at a collective level. Wider notions of victim status and victimisation are considered as part of a cultural victimological perspective (McGarry and Walklate, 2015), Walklate (2012) and Mythen (2007). This chapter also explores issue of community, the relationship between crime and community and also ways in which community emerges from global communications and distance. In addition, the symbolic nature of communities (Cohen, 1985) is discussed and the ways in which technology plays a key role in reshaping social relations beyond the traditional categories of place. The notion of ‘community’ and its place in late-modern society is contested. Yet if anything unites these very diverse conceptions of community, it is the idea that community concerns belonging.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Victim CommunityThe Paradoxes and Contradictions of ‘Victim’ and ‘Community’

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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
21 –59
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-87679-1_2
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter gives a background and context to our understanding of ‘victim communities’. It considers victimhood and identity, by exploring the classic interactionist works regarding labelling (Becker, 1963) and stigma and spoiled identity (Goffman, 1963), extrapolating how they may be refracted to scrutinise victimisation at a collective level. Wider notions of victim status and victimisation are considered as part of a cultural victimological perspective (McGarry and Walklate, 2015), Walklate (2012) and Mythen (2007). This chapter also explores issue of community, the relationship between crime and community and also ways in which community emerges from global communications and distance. In addition, the symbolic nature of communities (Cohen, 1985) is discussed and the ways in which technology plays a key role in reshaping social relations beyond the traditional categories of place. The notion of ‘community’ and its place in late-modern society is contested. Yet if anything unites these very diverse conceptions of community, it is the idea that community concerns belonging.]

Published: Dec 14, 2021

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