Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. List of abbreviations v
4. Notes on contributors vi
5. Acknowledgements xii
6. Foreword: thinking beyond the ideal xiii
7. Preface xvii
8. Introduction 1
9. The Ideal Victim 11
10. Exploring the ‘Ideal Victim’
11. The ideal victim through other(s’) eyes 27
12. Creating ideal victims in hate crime policy 43
13. The lived experiences of veiled Muslim women as ‘undeserving’ victims of Islamophobia 63
14. Being ‘ideal’ or falling short? The legitimacy of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender victims of domestic violence and hate crime 83
15. New victimisations: female sex worker hate crime and the ‘ideal victim’ 103
16. The ‘ideal migrant victim’ in human rights courts: between vulnerability and otherness 123
17. ‘Our most precious possession of all’: the survivor of non-recent childhood sexual abuse as the ideal victim? 141
18. ‘Idealising’ domestic violence victims 159
19. Environmental crime, victimisation, and the ideal victim 175
20. Exploring the ‘Non-Ideal’ Victim
21. Revisiting the non-ideal victim 195
22. Conceptualising victims of antisocial behaviour is far from ‘ideal’ 211
23. The ‘ideal’ rape victim and the elderly woman: a contradiction in terms? 229
24. Denying victim status to online fraud victims: the challenges of being a ‘non-ideal victim’ 243
25. Male prisoners’ vulnerabilities and the ideal victim concept 263
26. A decade after Lynndie: non-ideal victims of non-ideal offenders – doubly anomalised, doubly invisibilised 279
27. Towards an inclusive victimology and a new understanding of public compassion to victims: from and beyond Christie’s ideal victim 297
28. Conclusion 313
29. Index 315