Mapping the Victimological Landscape of the Balkans.
A Regional Study of Victimology and Victim Protection with a Critical Analysis of Current Victim Policies
1st Edition
Published on 6. October 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
X, 581 pages
978-3-428-15993-2 (ISBN)
Description
This timely and comprehensive collection of discussions on victimology, victims of crime and victim protection policies in the Balkans and beyond engages readers with the current state of the art of regional victimology in the Balkans and Central Europe. Original contributions from as many as ten countries of the region analyse the development of victimology, victim protection policies and practices, as well as major areas of victimological research. The main idea of the book at hand is to provide an insight into the complex nature of victimisation in contemporary societies and a deeper understanding of the nature of, and responses to, victimisation in the context of the criminal justice system and civil society. Chapters about the recent developments of victimology in Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey reflect on cultural victimology and contextualisation of victimology and victimological thought from a broader societal perspective. More importantly, the chapters thus present, for the first time, a comparative and contextual account of regional contributions to present-day victimology. This publication is a milestone of victimological research calling for a follow-up and more comparative victimological studies in the future, improvement of practice in victim protection and more feasible victim protection policies.
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Gorazd Mesko, Anna-Maria Getos Kalac & Michael Kilchling: Introduction to »Balkan Victimology«
Part One: Introduction and Abstracts
Antony Pemberton: Balkan Victimology as an Important Contribution to Cultural Victimology
Zoran Kanduc: Victims, Victimisers, Postmodern Culture, Neoliberal Capitalism, and the Case of Slovenia as a Transitional Society
Abstracts
Part Two: Country Chapters
Evisa Kambellari: Albania: Victimology and Victim Protection
Monika Stempkowski & Barbara Kraml: Austria
Azra Adzajlic-Dedovic & Miodrag Simovic: Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Development of Victimology and Victim Protection
Kamen Lyubomirov Novikov: Bulgaria
Anna-Maria Getos Kalac, Suncana Roksandic Vidlicka & Zoran Buric: Croatia: Victimology, Victimisation (Typology) & Victim Protection
Andrea Tünde Barabás: Hungary: Victimisation and Victim-Related Questions of Restorative Justice
Ákos Kara, Anna Kiss, Eszter Sárik & Viktória Szentmihályi-Soós: Hungary: Victimology in Hungary
Velimir Rakocevic & Aleksandra Jovanovic: Montenegro: Victimology and Victim Protection
Gordana Lazetic & Aleksandra Gruevska Drakulevski: North Macedonia: Victimology and Victim Protection
Andra-Roxana Trandafir & Flaviu Ciopec: Romania
Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic & Sanja Copic: Serbia: Victimology and Victim Protection
Gorazd Mesko, Katja Eman, Rok Hacin & Urska Pirnat: Slovenia: Victimology and Victimological Research - Past, Present, and Future Challenges
Tuba Topçuoglu & Selman Dursun: Turkey: Victimology and Victim Protection