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Ten Revisiting the non-ideal victim

Abstract

In comparison to Christie’s focus on characterising the ‘ideal victim’ and the sociology of the phenomena, this chapter instead focuses on the non-ideal victim and how this sub-group of victims is linked to individual reactions to victimisation. Christie’s discussion of the non-ideal victim goes only so far as ‘witches and workers’ – those victims who are made so due to either their ill health or ignorance of their victimisation, who do not have sufficient strength/power to claim legitimate victim status. Christie does not however consider the individual who does not want to be associated with the victim label, and will in fact go to great lengths to avoid victim status, including not reporting crimes to the police or further engaging with criminal justice. Avoiding victimisation, or at least avoiding the victim identity and label, is thereby potentially an effective means of protecting one’s foundational belief systems and maintaining personal wellbeing.

Abstract

In comparison to Christie’s focus on characterising the ‘ideal victim’ and the sociology of the phenomena, this chapter instead focuses on the non-ideal victim and how this sub-group of victims is linked to individual reactions to victimisation. Christie’s discussion of the non-ideal victim goes only so far as ‘witches and workers’ – those victims who are made so due to either their ill health or ignorance of their victimisation, who do not have sufficient strength/power to claim legitimate victim status. Christie does not however consider the individual who does not want to be associated with the victim label, and will in fact go to great lengths to avoid victim status, including not reporting crimes to the police or further engaging with criminal justice. Avoiding victimisation, or at least avoiding the victim identity and label, is thereby potentially an effective means of protecting one’s foundational belief systems and maintaining personal wellbeing.

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  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
Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim'
Ein Kapitel aus dem Buch Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim'
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447339151-017

Kapitel in diesem Buch

  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
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