Hidden, Unheard and Unrecognized Victims
Description
This edited book centres the experiences of groups and individuals who have historically received little attention in the broader framing of victimology, victims movements and wider society. With a mainstream political discourse underpinned by conceptions of deservingness and idealised constructions of victimhood, many groups and individuals- including sex workers, non-human animals, sexual minorities, families of the convicted, and people from working-class communities are marginalised from important debates. This book provides an intersectional examination of victimisation with a discussion of new and existing forms of victimisation linking to theories. It has four themed sections on: hidden violence and abuse, co-victims and retraumatization, recognizing and restoring hidden and unrecognized victims and non-human victims. It supports the need for greater recognition and understanding of these groups, the ethical implications of current and future policy and practice, and innovations in theory and conceptual debates. It speaks to the disciplines of Sociology, Criminology, and Social Work, and for anyone who works with victims in practice.
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Persons
Dr Ian Mahoney is Senior Lecturer in Criminology and Deputy Director of the Centre for Crime, Offending, Prevention and Engagement at Nottingham Trent University, UK. His research is currently focused around exploring memetic warfare, and understanding and addressing the harms and impacts of crime and contact with the justice system across diverse groups. Drawing upon Transformative Justice principles he is currently exploring approaches to better understanding societal barriers to effective rehabilitation and reintegration.
Dr Hind Elhinnawy is Senior Lecturer in Criminology at Nottingham Trent University, UK, and Chair of the Critical Criminology and Social Justice Research Group. Her work bridges feminist, anti-racist, and decolonial scholarship with grassroots activism, focusing on marginalised voices and structural inequality. Hind's research interrogates the politics of recognition, epistemic injustice, and the silencing of minoritised communities-particularly Muslim women, and survivors of institutional harm. Hind's activism includes a landmark legal case in Egypt that led to changes in family law, securing recognition for single mothers and children born outside wedlock.
Content
1 Hidden in plain sight: hidden and unrecognized victims.- 2 Hypersexualisation, Testimonial Smothering, and Jealousy: Uncovering Bisexual Women's Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence.- 3 Understanding the Concept of Sexual Harassment in Online environments.- 4 "Breaking the Silence: Public Views Toward Reporting Violence Against Women in Prostitution.- 5 Performing Respectability: Unveiling the Dynamics of Response and Support in Working-Class Women Confronting Sexual Harassment.- 6 Behind Closed Doors: Disabled, abused and unrecognized.- 7 Forgotten victims: families and co-victims of homicide victims.- 8 I'm a disgrace in chapel. I'm a disgrace everywhere. But that's how it affects you: the impacts on prisoners' relatives and supporters of campaigning against a wrongful conviction.- 9 "Denial, Delay and Death: How Britain's Failure to Deal with the Legacy of Conflict in Northern Ireland Retraumatizes Victims and Survivors.- 10 Hunting for Recognition of Harm: 'The Crooked House Pub' and Other Stories.- 11 Deepfakes and Deathly Harms: How Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Hologram Technologies amplify the harmful aspects of deepfakes of both the living and the dead.- 12 Criminology's Imperial Coldness.- 13 Beyond the Surface: Identified victims of human trafficking and those left behind.- 14 Legal Universalism in the South Pacific: Failing victims of sexual violence.- 15 Restorative Practice: The key to integration for refugees and migrant communities?.- 16 Exploring Human-Wildlife Conflict Through a Green Criminological Lens.- 17 Green Criminology to the left of it, Criminology to the right: Companion Animals - stuck in the middle with who?.- 18 Technosexuality: Ethical Dilemmas and Moral Quandaries.- 19 Concluding remarks.