A victim community : stigma and the media legacy of high-profile crime / Nicola O'Leary.
O'Leary, Nicola, author.
2021
HV6250.25 .O443 2021
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Title A victim community : stigma and the media legacy of high-profile crime / Nicola O'Leary.
Author O'Leary, Nicola, author.
ISBN 9783030876791 (electronic bk.)
3030876799 (electronic bk.)
9783030876784
3030876780
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87679-1
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-87679-1 doi
Call Number HV6250.25 .O443 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification 362.88
Summary Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map. For politicians, newspapers, the media and the public at large, criminal injury and loss are a source of constant concern and anxiety. Criminologists and media analysts have studied much of this concern in recent years but what has not been investigated is how communities experience high profile crimes and the media intrusion that inevitably follows. This book seeks to address this gap by exploring how the communities of Soham and Dunblane, that witnessed high profile crimes, lived with the tragic events at the time and the attention of the worlds media afterwards. Based on a two-year qualitative study of these communities, this book looks beneath the surface of the relationships, dilemmas and unexpected triumphs of communities struggling to come to terms with the most harrowing of events, within the glare of the media spotlight. Combining empirical observations with media analysis and social theory, this book offers something new to the criminological audience: the concept of the victim community. Nicola OLeary is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Criminology and Sociology at the University of Hull, UK.
Note Includes index.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed December 28, 2021).
Series Palgrave studies in victims and victimology.
Available in Other Form Victim community.
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Victim and Community
Chapter 3: Crime News, Media and Identity
Chapter 4: Dunblane: A United Community Divided
Chapter 5: Soham: The Litany of a Tragic Town
Chapter 6: Making Sense of Victim Communities: Negotiating Collective Identity
Chapter 7: Conclusion.

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