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21st Century Yakuza - Death Of Japanese Organised Crime

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 21st Century Yakuza explores the decline and transformation of Japan's best-known criminal organisations. Drawing on first-hand interviews with current and former members, the book reveals how these groups adapt to repression, how they continue to influence the underworld, and what replaces them when they fade.
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Domestic Violence In Pakistan - The Legal Construction Of 'Bad' And 'Mad' Women

by Daanika Kamal

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 Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal avenues against acts of domestic violence. Their claims, however, are often dismissed through character allegations that label them as 'bad' women in need of control, or 'mad' women not to be trusted. Domestic Violence in Pakistan explores why the subjectivities of women victims are constructed in particular ways, and how these subjectivities are captured and negotiated in the Pakistani legal system. Drawing on feminist poststructuralist accounts relating to the use of gendering strategies in institutional and disciplinary settings and based on an analysis of over a hundred case files and judgements, seventy-two interviews, and court observations in three cities of Pakistan, this book shadows the experiences of women victims of domestic violence in both criminal law and family law proceedings. It captures and offers empirical insights in relation to gendered subject formation in discursive spaces; ranging from the use of societal narratives that minimise and silence women's harms, to the deployment of police mechanisms that assist in maintaining the 'secrecy' of familial violence, and the application and enactment of boilerplate lawyerly strategies to present alternative legal 'truths.' Amidst regulations of the public versus the private and understandings of rights versus duties, Domestic Violence in Pakistan explores how these practices construct the victim-subject of domestic violence in a way that not only subjectivise her, but also secure her within the field of that subjectification; setting her up to be viewed by the judiciary through the lens of the allegations applied to her.
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Domestic Violence In Pakistan - The Legal Construction Of 'Bad' And 'Mad' Women

by Daanika Kamal

~~92,74€~~ 83,47€ 10% OFF

 Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal avenues against acts of domestic violence. Their claims, however, are often dismissed through character allegations that label them as 'bad' women in need of control, or 'mad' women not to be trusted. Domestic Violence in Pakistan explores why the subjectivities of women victims are constructed in particular ways, and how these subjectivities are captured and negotiated in the Pakistani legal system. Drawing on feminist poststructuralist accounts relating to the use of gendering strategies in institutional and disciplinary settings and based on an analysis of over a hundred case files and judgements, seventy-two interviews, and court observations in three cities of Pakistan, this book shadows the experiences of women victims of domestic violence in both criminal law and family law proceedings. It captures and offers empirical insights in relation to gendered subject formation in discursive spaces; ranging from the use of societal narratives that minimise and silence women's harms, to the deployment of police mechanisms that assist in maintaining the 'secrecy' of familial violence, and the application and enactment of boilerplate lawyerly strategies to present alternative legal 'truths.' Amidst regulations of the public versus the private and understandings of rights versus duties, Domestic Violence in Pakistan explores how these practices construct the victim-subject of domestic violence in a way that not only subjectivise her, but also secure her within the field of that subjectification; setting her up to be viewed by the judiciary through the lens of the allegations applied to her.
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Crime And Civilization - The Birth Of Criminology In The Early Nineteenth Century

by Janne Kivivuori

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 This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on Oxford Academic and is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence In 1827, the first modern national crime statistics were published: the Compte gA(c)nA(c)ral de l'administration de la justice criminelle en France. Before the onset of data criminology, the perception of crime relied on sources from classical antiquity, rational philosophical thought, travellers' observations, and unsystematic observations by criminal justice practitioners. With the new concept of national crime statistics, it became possible to test theories and hypotheses about crime using a shared data instrument, leading to an unprecedented avalanche of crime research by continental scholars. Crime and Civilization: The Birth of Criminology in the Early Nineteenth Century explores the rise of data-based criminology as an intellectual field in continental Europe in the early nineteenth century. Janne Kivivuori creates a new interpretation of the era of 'first criminology,' one approached from the perspective of data and instruments, thus complementing the traditional story based on theories and explanatory shifts from 'classicism' to 'positivism' and beyond. Drawing on original French, German, and English publications, the book contextualizes the rise of criminology in wider cultural history, spanning from Enlightenment philosophers to the general rise of science in society. Accessible and thought-provoking, Crime and Civilization is about how data-driven criminal studies began, and how the first criminologists could know about the patterns and trends of crime. A must-read for criminologists worldwide, this book will fast become a valuable addition to the literature on the history of criminology and of early social science more generally.
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Mafia Expansion - The 'Ndrangheta In Established Democracies

by Zora L. Hauser

~~99,38€~~ 89,44€ 10% OFF

 Mafia Expansion: The 'Ndrangheta in Established Democracies offers an overarching account of mafia expansion grounded in a far-reaching analysis of one of the most widely spread, yet least understood, mafias in the world. While few mafia organizations exist today, they wield significant global influence, having extended their reach into territories including the United States, Australia, and nearly all European countries. Scholars have often associated mafia presence with a state's ability and willingness to govern effectively when faced with social disorganization, economic recession, and chronic distrust. Why, then, have seemingly stable democracies seen mafia expansion into their territories? In response to this question, Mafia Expansion illuminates how and why mafia organizations have taken root in contexts very different to those in which they originally emerged. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a rich selection of primary sources, the book presents an in-depth study of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta's expansion to Germany. It offers a nuanced framework for understanding mafia expansion, according to which mafia groups either transplant their core business model attempting to govern in the new territory; trade in licit and illicit markets as one criminal actor among many; or become inactive and hibernate in a stage from which they may or may not resurface. Taken together, the book proposes a comprehensive explanation of mafia expansion that goes beyond specific case-studies and uncovers relationships between migration, trust, and enforcement dynamics within the context of organized crime.
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Mafia Expansion - The 'Ndrangheta In Established Democracies

by Zora L. Hauser

~~99,38€~~ 89,44€ 10% OFF

 Mafia Expansion: The 'Ndrangheta in Established Democracies offers an overarching account of mafia expansion grounded in a far-reaching analysis of one of the most widely spread, yet least understood, mafias in the world. While few mafia organizations exist today, they wield significant global influence, having extended their reach into territories including the United States, Australia, and nearly all European countries. Scholars have often associated mafia presence with a state's ability and willingness to govern effectively when faced with social disorganization, economic recession, and chronic distrust. Why, then, have seemingly stable democracies seen mafia expansion into their territories? In response to this question, Mafia Expansion illuminates how and why mafia organizations have taken root in contexts very different to those in which they originally emerged. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a rich selection of primary sources, the book presents an in-depth study of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta's expansion to Germany. It offers a nuanced framework for understanding mafia expansion, according to which mafia groups either transplant their core business model attempting to govern in the new territory; trade in licit and illicit markets as one criminal actor among many; or become inactive and hibernate in a stage from which they may or may not resurface. Taken together, the book proposes a comprehensive explanation of mafia expansion that goes beyond specific case-studies and uncovers relationships between migration, trust, and enforcement dynamics within the context of organized crime.
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Facial Recognition Surveillance - Policing And Human Rights In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

by Daragh Murray e Pete Fussey

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 Scanning millions of faces each year, facial recognition technology (FRT) has become one of today's fastest growing and most controversial AI-driven surveillance technologies.Based on rare ethnographic access to police FRT deployments, Facial Recognition Surveillance: Policing and Human Rights in the Age of Artificial Intelligence delves into the profound impact of FRT on policing practices, surveillance capabilities, and human rights protections. It reveals how this technology shapes, and is also shaped by, the complex environments in which it is deployed, dramatically reshaping police-citizen interactions.This book exposes the selective scientific and legal narratives that justify the expansion of AI-driven surveillance. It draws on cutting-edge human rights theory to propose a due diligence framework tailored to police use of FRT and introduces the concept of 'compound human rights harm' to capture the multifaceted impact of surveillance.Integrating insights from the sociology of policing, science and technology studies, and human rights scholarship, this book advances a theoretically novel and empirically informed perspective that positions FRT as a socio-technical system capable of altering the fundamental nature of policing.
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Transforming Justice Responses To Non-Recent Institutional Abuses

by Anne-Marie Mcalinden, James Gallen e Marie Keenan

~~116,59€~~ 104,93€ 10% OFF

 Over the last few decades, the issue of historical/ non-recent institutional abuses has resonated in a range of Western states and churches. Despite the recent proliferation of 'justice' responses to such abuses including prosecutions and civil litigation, inquiries, redress and apologies, it is a subject which is insufficiently understood in the literature. Set against the complexities of the legal, historical, cultural, and political realities of addressing non-recent institutional abuses, Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional Abuses critically examines these justice responses across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Bringing together the voices of victim/survivors of non-recent institutional abuses with legal actors, academics, media professionals, and church and state actors on their experiences of justice processes, this book reframes discourses on accountability and responsibility and considers how to improve justice processes at the level of praxis and increase engagement between victim/survivors and institutional actors.Drawing on interdisciplinary literature related to restorative, transitional, and transformative justice and analysis of primary research, the book advances analysis of the role of innovative justice in this space and a new approach to justice which bridges the accountability gap between seeking and achieving justice for non-recent institutional abuses while improving outcomes for victims and survivors. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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Transforming Justice Responses To Non-Recent Institutional Abuses

by Anne-Marie Mcalinden, James Gallen e Marie Keenan

~~116,59€~~ 104,93€ 10% OFF

 Over the last few decades, the issue of historical/ non-recent institutional abuses has resonated in a range of Western states and churches. Despite the recent proliferation of 'justice' responses to such abuses including prosecutions and civil litigation, inquiries, redress and apologies, it is a subject which is insufficiently understood in the literature. Set against the complexities of the legal, historical, cultural, and political realities of addressing non-recent institutional abuses, Transforming Justice Responses to Non-Recent Institutional Abuses critically examines these justice responses across Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. Bringing together the voices of victim/survivors of non-recent institutional abuses with legal actors, academics, media professionals, and church and state actors on their experiences of justice processes, this book reframes discourses on accountability and responsibility and considers how to improve justice processes at the level of praxis and increase engagement between victim/survivors and institutional actors. Drawing on interdisciplinary literature related to restorative, transitional, and transformative justice and analysis of primary research, the book advances analysis of the role of innovative justice in this space and a new approach to justice which bridges the accountability gap between seeking and achieving justice for non-recent institutional abuses while improving outcomes for victims and survivors. This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.
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Law And Personality Disorder - Human Rights, Human Risks, And Rehabilitation

by Ailbhe O'Loughlin

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 In 1999, policymakers in England and Wales advanced controversial proposals for the preventive detention of a group they termed 'dangerous people with severe personality disorders'. Against a background of uncertain scientific knowledge, legal and policy actors have long faced challenges in reconciling the need to prevent crime with the need to respect the rights of the 'dangerous'. Ailbhe O'Loughlin's book, Law and Personality Disorder, situates contemporary debates about 'dangerous' offenders within this decades-old battle between the proponents of liberal legal principles and advocates of social defence. Law and Personality Disorder deconstructs competing images of offenders with personality disorders and the dilemmas they present, combining insights from criminology, psychiatry, psychology, and law. The book thus critically engages with an alluring narrative: the state has a duty to protect the public from 'dangerous' individuals, but it can also protect the human rights of the 'dangerous' by providing them with rehabilitation opportunities. While human rights law is often invoked as a means of curbing the excesses of preventive justice, O'Loughlin demonstrates that the case law of the European Court of Human Rights tends to legitimise coercive measures. Criminal law, furthermore, enables the punishment of offenders with mental disorders by resisting psychiatric evidence that they may not be fully responsible for their actions. Examining gaps in sentencing law, mental health law, and human rights law, this innovative book offers readers a comprehensive interpretation of the laws governing offenders with personality disorders and puts forward proposals for reform.
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Drugs, Race, And The Politics Of Modern Slavery Law - When Enemies Become Victims

by Insa Lee (Chair For British Cultures, Chair For British Cultures, University Of St. Gallen) Koch

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 While young people once policed as 'gang members' are now framed as modern slaves, this supposed progressive shift revives colonial logics, reinforces state control, and deepens inequalities in the UK. Drugs, Race, and the Politics of Modern Slavery Law reveals how the fight against 'modern slavery' harms the communities it claims to protect.
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The Public Health Approach To Violence Reduction - Stories, Movements, And Hope

by Alistair (Professor Of Criminology, Professor Of Criminology, University Of Glasgow) Fraser, Fern (Research Associate, Research Associate, Strathclyde University) Gillon, Keir (Senior Lecturer In Criminology, Senior Lecturer In Criminology, The Open University) Irwin-Rogers, Luke (Youth Worker, Hackney Quest Research Associate, Open University Honorary Research Fellow, Youth Worker, Hackney Quest Research Associate, Open University Honorary Research Fe, Susan (Professor Of Quantitative Criminology, Professor Of Quantitative Criminology, University Of Edinburgh) Mcvie e Tim (Professor Of Criminology And Social Policy, Professor Of Criminology And Social Policy, London School Of Economics) Newburn

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 This book provides an in-depth analysis of the public health approach to violence reduction in the UK. It draws on 190 interviews with professionals and members of affected communities to examine the impact and evolution of these strategies.
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Outsourcing Crimmigration Control - Digital Borders, The Iom, And Biometric Statehood

by Samuel (Lecturer In Criminology, Lecturer In Criminology, Department Of Sociology And Criminology, University Of Essex) Singler

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 Outsourcing Crimmigration Control develops a new theoretical framework for understanding how digital technologies can transform border control and criminal justice practices. Presenting original evidence, this book discusses the potential risks and serious political effects of surveillance technologies, despite their apparent neutrality.
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Domestic Violence In Pakistan - The Legal Construction Of 'Bad' And 'Mad' Women

by Daanika (Lecturer In Law, Lecturer In Law, Department Of Law And Criminology, Royal Holloway, University Of London) Kamal

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 Pakistani women are increasingly pursuing legal action against domestic violence, but their claims are often dismissed through character allegations. This book examines how women's victimhood is constructed and negotiated in the legal system, drawing on feminist theory and extensive case analysis.
Facial Recognition Surveillance - Policing And Human Rights In The Age Of Artificial Intelligence

by Daragh (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University School Of Law) Murray e Pete (Professor Of Criminology, Professor Of Criminology, University Of Southampton) Fussey

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 This book explores the impact of facial recognition technology (FRT) on policing, surveillance, and human rights. It reveals how FRT reshapes police-citizen interactions and introduces frameworks to address its complex effects.
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Policing Human Rights - Law, Narratives, And Practice

by Richard Martin

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 Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies. Across the world, police are now governed by human rights principles and increasingly detailed standards - from arrest and detention to the regulation of protest and the use of lethal force. Yet there has been remarkably limited research examining human rights as a central feature of contemporary police reform, rhetoric and regulation. Policing Human Rights breaks new ground by offering one of the first sociologically inspired and empirically grounded accounts of how officers encounter and experience human rights law in their everyday work. The substantive insights and associated arguments of the book are based on unprecedented fieldwork with Police Service of Northern Ireland, including interviews and focus groups with over one hundred police officers, from over twenty police stations and five departments. Adopting an interdisciplinary style of analysis that draws on sociology, anthropology and organizational studies, the book takes the reader on a tour of four sites of policing to expose how and why human rights law comes to be socially constituted, organizationally conditioned and routinely interpreted and applied by police officers. The book offers an insight into the function of human rights law in modern policing, exposing the visions and values police officers'' express in their daily narratives, sensemaking and practices.
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Policing Human Rights - Law, Narratives, And Practice

by Richard Martin

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 Human rights go to the heart of policing in democratic societies. Across the world, police are now governed by human rights principles and increasingly detailed standards - from arrest and detention to the regulation of protest and the use of lethal force. Yet there has been remarkably limited research examining human rights as a central feature of contemporary police reform, rhetoric and regulation. Policing Human Rights breaks new ground by offering one of the first sociologically inspired and empirically grounded accounts of how officers encounter and experience human rights law in their everyday work. The substantive insights and associated arguments of the book are based on unprecedented fieldwork with Police Service of Northern Ireland, including interviews and focus groups with over one hundred police officers, from over twenty police stations and five departments. Adopting an interdisciplinary style of analysis that draws on sociology, anthropology and organizational studies, the book takes the reader on a tour of four sites of policing to expose how and why human rights law comes to be socially constituted, organizationally conditioned and routinely interpreted and applied by police officers. The book offers an insight into the function of human rights law in modern policing, exposing the visions and values police officers'' express in their daily narratives, sensemaking and practices.
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Professionalizing The Police - The Unfulfilled Promise Of Police Training

by Nigel Fielding

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 A critical reassessment of the development of British police training and its contribution to the furtherance of the police professionalism agenda, drawing on empirical evidence to add to a major theme of police research: the theorizations of police legitimacy.
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Getting Out - Early Release In England And Wales, 1960 - 1995

by Thomas Guiney

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 Using extensive archival research, Getting Out explores the complex nature of criminal justice administration, the strong path-dependent effects of public policy choices, and the critical role of uneven power differentials in the development of early release policy and practice between 1960 and 1995.
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Getting Out - Early Release In England And Wales, 1960 - 1995

by Thomas Guiney

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 Using extensive archival research, Getting Out explores the complex nature of criminal justice administration, the strong path-dependent effects of public policy choices, and the critical role of uneven power differentials in the development of early release policy and practice between 1960 and 1995.
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Transforming Justice Responses To Non-Recent Institutional Abuses

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 This book critically examines justice responses to non-recent institutional abuses in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. It brings together the voices of survivors, lawyers, academics, media, churches, and state actors, proposing a new justice approach that bridges accountability gaps and improves outcomes for victims and survivors.
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Constructing Victimhood - Beyond Innocence And Guilt In Transitional Justice

by Cheryl Lawther

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 Constructing Victimhood seeks to go ''beyond innocence and guilt'' to expand the criminological, victimological, and transitional justice image of who we ''see'' as victims, what we ''hear'' as experiences of victimisation, and who makes these determinations. The book argues that the construction, reproduction, and politicisation of victimhood is structured not only by notions of innocence and guilt and the existence of complex victims, but by larger questions concerning the existence of complex hierarchies of victimhood that supersede simplistic notions of ''good'' and ''bad'' victims. Lawther also considers the exercise of voice, the role of silence and the silencing of certain variants of victimhood (in gender-based crimes for example), the politicisation of victims'' groups and the impact of unresolved legacies of violent conflict. The author argues that in the failure to cast the transitional justice gaze more widely it is not only the ''voices in the cracks'' that will be overlooked, but entire experiences of victimhood and victimisation.If transitional justice is to live up to its claims of being ''victim centred'', widening its conceptual and practical boundaries to recognise the multiple and overlapping variables that construct and reproduce victimhood is essential. Pursuing this line of enquiry, Constructing Victimhood aims to change our understanding of victimhood in post-conflict and transitional contexts.
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Mafia Expansion - The 'Ndrangheta In Established Democracies

by Zora L. (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, Institute Of Criminology, University Of Cambridge) Hauser

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 This book offers the first overarching account of mafia expansion grounded in the analysis of one of the most widely spread, yet least understood, mafias in the world. It presents an in-depth study of the Calabrian 'Ndrangheta's expansion to Germany and a nuanced framework for understanding mafia expansion into other democratic states.
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Constructing Victimhood - Beyond Innocence And Guilt In Transitional Justice

by Cheryl Lawther

~~92,74€~~ 83,47€ 10% OFF

 Constructing Victimhood seeks to go ''beyond innocence and guilt'' to expand the criminological, victimological, and transitional justice image of who we ''see'' as victims, what we ''hear'' as experiences of victimisation, and who makes these determinations. The book argues that the construction, reproduction, and politicisation of victimhood is structured not only by notions of innocence and guilt and the existence of complex victims, but by larger questions concerning the existence of complex hierarchies of victimhood that supersede simplistic notions of ''good'' and ''bad'' victims. Lawther also considers the exercise of voice, the role of silence and the silencing of certain variants of victimhood (in gender-based crimes for example), the politicisation of victims'' groups and the impact of unresolved legacies of violent conflict. The author argues that in the failure to cast the transitional justice gaze more widely it is not only the ''voices in the cracks'' that will be overlooked, but entire experiences of victimhood and victimisation.If transitional justice is to live up to its claims of being ''victim centred'', widening its conceptual and practical boundaries to recognise the multiple and overlapping variables that construct and reproduce victimhood is essential. Pursuing this line of enquiry, Constructing Victimhood aims to change our understanding of victimhood in post-conflict and transitional contexts.
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