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Conclusion

Abstract

This chapter reiterates the importance of Christie’s work, and this volume’s reinterrogation of the ‘Ideal Victim’, both historically and in our modern age. The chapter then explores the relationship between Christie’s work and the development of restorative and transitional justice movements. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the volume and suggests further work to be undertaken both in keeping with Christie’s work and in the field of victimology more generally.

Abstract

This chapter reiterates the importance of Christie’s work, and this volume’s reinterrogation of the ‘Ideal Victim’, both historically and in our modern age. The chapter then explores the relationship between Christie’s work and the development of restorative and transitional justice movements. The chapter concludes with a discussion of the limitations of the volume and suggests further work to be undertaken both in keeping with Christie’s work and in the field of victimology more generally.

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
Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim'
This chapter is in the book Revisiting the 'Ideal Victim'
https://doi.org/10.56687/9781447339151-024

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
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