Understanding Prisoner Victimisation

Author:   Tom Daems ,  Elien Goossens
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
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9783031543494


Pages:   187
Publication Date:   17 April 2024
Format:   Hardback
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Understanding Prisoner Victimisation


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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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Author:   Tom Daems ,  Elien Goossens
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2024
ISBN:  

9783031543494


ISBN 10:   3031543491
Pages:   187
Publication Date:   17 April 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1 The safety paradox and beyond: why we should study inter-prisoner victimisation.- 2 Who’s who? Individual characteristics of those involved in sexual assaults in adult men’s prisons in England and Wales.- 3 Every victim is unique: Explaining victimisation among prisoners in Flanders.- 4 The victim-offender overlap in prisons.- 5 Vulnerability and victimhood in prison.- 6 Independent monitoring and victimisation in prisons.- 7 Methodological challenges to victimisation studies.

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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.

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