Justice for Victims: Perspectives on Rights, Transition and Reconciliation

ISBN-13: 9780415634335 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 408 str.

Inge Vanfraechem; Anthony Pemberton; Ndahinda Felix

Opis

Justice for Victims brings together the world's leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimisation in a pioneering international collection. This book focuses on the current study of victims of crime, combining both legal and social-scientific perspectives, articulating both in new directions and questioning whether victims really do have more rights in our modern world. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach, covering large scale (political) victimisation, terrorist victimisation, sexual victimisation and routine victimisation. Split into three sections, this book provides in depth coverage of: victims' rights, transitional justice and victims' perspectives, and trauma, resilience and justice. Victims' rights are conceptualised in the human rights framework and discussed in relation to supranational, international and regional policies. The transitional justice section covers victims of war from those caught between peace and justice, as well as post-conflict justice. The final section focuses on post-traumatic stress, connecting psychological and anthropological perceptions in analysing collective violence, mass victimization and trauma.This book addresses challenging and new issues in the field of victimology and the study of transitional and restorative justice. As such, it will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students interested in the fields of victimology, transitional justice, restorative justice and trauma work.