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Nils Christie’s (1986) seminal work on the ‘Ideal Victim’ is reproduced in full in this edited collection of vibrant and provocative essays that respond to and update the concept from a range of thematic positions.
Each chapter celebrates and commemorates his work by analysing, evaluating and critiquing the current nature and impact of victim identity, experience, policy and practice. The collection expands the focus and remit of ‘victim studies’, addressing key themes around race, gender, faith, ability and age while encompassing new and diverse issues. Examples include sex workers as victims of hate crimes, victims’ experiences of online fraud, and recognising historic child sexual abuse victims in Ireland.
With contributions from an array of academics including Vicky Heap (Sheffield Hallam University), Hannah Mason-Bish (University of Sussex) and Pamela Davies (Northumbria University), as well as a Foreword by David Scott (The Open University), this book evaluates the contemporary relevance and applicability of Christie’s ‘Ideal Victim’ concept and creates an important platform for thinking differently about victimhood in the 21st century.
Introduction This article seeks to acknowledge how disabled people 2 navigate and counter how society makes them feel about their difference. To this end, I introduce two converse yet complementary feeling strategies promoted in Disability Studies: cripping and reclaiming . Cripping invites us to feel proud about disability, whereas reclaiming acknowledges the hurtful feelings that, at times, belong to the disability experience. The following sections will elaborate on what those two feeling strategies do, the utopian hopes attached to them, their major
The Global Agenda for Social Justice provides accessible insights into some of the world’s most pressing social problems and proposes practicable international public policy responses to those problems.
Written by a highly respected team of authors brought together by the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP), chapters examine topics such as education, violence, discrimination, substance abuse, public health, and environment. The volume provides recommendations for action by governing officials, policy makers, and the public around key issues of social justice.
The book will be of interest to scholars, practitioners, advocates, journalists, and students interested in public sociology, the study of social problems, and the pursuit of social justice.
89 Families, Relationships and Societies • vol 8 • no 1 • 89–104 • © Policy Press 2019 Print ISSN 2046 7435 • Online ISSN 2046 7443 • https://doi.org/10.1332/096278917X15015139344438 Accepted for publication 22 July 2017 • First published online 02 August 2017 article Comparative life experiences: young adult siblings with and without disabilities’ different understandings of their respective life experiences during young adulthood Ariella Meltzer, a.meltzer@unsw.edu.au University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Research shows that siblings of people
disabilities or learning difficulties. In the previously discussed instance, we see a criminal justice response that criminalises the victim (in that Ebrahimi was arrested on suspicion of paedophilic offences) and, once exonerated, fails to take the required action to 44 Revisiting the ‘Ideal Victim’ protect a vulnerable person. Despite the repeated acts of hostility directed towards him, no prosecutions – including for his eventual murder – were brought under the disability hate crime provisions. This case, as with others outlined in this chapter, illustrates a key
lead to their human rights being violated with impunity.1 For Peroni and Timmer (2013), the recognition of vulnerable groups by the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has been a noticeable and welcome development, a commentary that was mirrored by Clerico and Beloff (2014) with regards to the IACtHR. In the European context, the Roma minority, children, women, persons with disabilities, refugees and asylum-seekers, and HIV-positive persons are among those who have been recognised as vulnerable; for its IACtHR counterpart, some examples are indigenous
that there are the possibilities for challenging the construction of the ideal victim as defenceless and blameless. What Christie’s analysis does not deal with in any depth is those who are victimised because of the social group to which they belong, or because of the social group to which they are believed/perceived to belong. Hate-motivated crime, as it has come to be known, is understood in this way. In England and Wales, legislation exists for enhanced sentences for hate crimes with regard to ‘race’, faith, sexuality, transgender identity and disability
considering whether Christie’s ideal victim framework can be applied to personal ASB because not many ASB victims meet the same number of ideal victim criteria. A further complicating factor is that the victimisation endured by the Pilkingtons should have been treated as a disability hate crime (as argued elsewhere; see Heap, 2016). Christie (1986: 27, emphasis in original) was right when he said that ‘ideal victims do not necessarily have much to do with the prevalence of real victims’. Drawing on Flatley’s analysis of perception data from the British Crime Survey
, 2016: 92). Hate crime is aimed at ‘prejudicial or biased criminal acts against a person or property that are motivated by a victim’s actual or perceived sexuality, race, ethnicity, disability, religion and gender’ (Corteen, 2014: 175). In the approach to hate crime in Merseyside, this definition has been extended to sex workers (Campbell and Stoops, 2010; College of Policing, 2014; Campbell, 2015). Gender-based crimes are mainly or exclusively aimed at women and girls, and are encapsulated in the phrase ‘gender-based violence’ (Bricknell, 2016). Female sex
, pain medication or to throw up, or all of the above. But why was a five-year-old doing this? Perhaps this is partly explained by the social aspects surrounding disability in Mexico. In this country, the care of people with disabilities is characterised by inequalities. Three disability models can be located. First, the charity model identifies disabilities with imperfections, impurities, God’s rage and the expiation of sins. This model has, on the one hand, the Christian discourse of compassion and, on the other, exclusion and punishment as people with
