Overview
- Provides an intersectional look at vulnerability and how it can shape victimhood in prisons
- Reviews the overlap between victimisation and misconduct in prisons
- Seeks to better theorise victimisation and misconduct in prisons
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology (PSVV)
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About this book
People in prison are usually (and often exclusively) seen and approached as persons who have committed one or more crimes and who have to pay their debt to society. However, while in prison, they often get victimised themselves. Research has demonstrated that prisons tend to be unsafe environments where various forms of victimisation take place. These forms of victimisation often go unnoticed and usually do not attract much interest from policymakers or society at large: prisoners are, indeed, far from ‘ideal victims’. This book is devoted to understanding prisoner victimisation, in particular from a European perspective. Chapters in this volume focus on recent empirical work in a number of European countries (Belgium, England and Wales and the Netherlands). These chapters are complemented with a series of reflections from a conceptual, methodological and human rights perspective.
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Tom Daems is Professor of Criminology at the Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Elien Goossens is PhD Researcher at the Leuven Institute of Criminology, KU Leuven, Belgium.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding Prisoner Victimisation
Editors: Tom Daems, Elien Goossens
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-54350-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54349-4Published: 17 April 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-54352-4Due: 18 May 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-54350-0Published: 16 April 2024
Series ISSN: 2947-9355
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 187
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Prison and Punishment, Victimology, Human Rights, Critical Criminology, Research Methods in Criminology