Vulnerable Victims and Victimisation within Practice and Policy in the UK: Perspectives from Practitioners and Academic Insights(Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology)

This book offers a holistic and broad discussion of vulnerable victims, what constitutes victimisation, and how different groups within society are supported through, impacted by, and protected by different agencies and actors within the criminal justice system, society, voluntary organisations, and research. The victims covered in this book include children, domestic abuse survivors, to those becoming victimised through the state, or those not recognised as having "victimhood" status. This book includes chapters and discussions from both practitioners and academics. The authors reflect on practice and policy implications, empirical research, and policy guidance. It includes suggestions for both practice and research for working with vulnerable victims, marginalised groups, and difficult-to-access communities.

Table of Contents:
.- Part I: The Validity of Victimhood: How Social Capital, Identity and Professional pp.1 Perceptions Impact on Experiences of Exploitation.- Chapter 1: Introduction: Reconciling Diverse Perspectives of Contested Concepts.- Chapter 2: Beyond Tokenism: An Intersectional Approach to Understanding Vulnerable Victims with Marginalised Identities.- Chapter 3: Fraud: Unheard Victims & Unseen Harms.- Part II: Systemic Victimisation: How Structural Oppression Retraumatises Vulnerable People.- Chapter 4: The normalisation of transphobic victimisation.- Chapter 5: The Relationship Between the Families of Long-Term Missing Persons and Police Forces in the UK.- Chapter 6: Language Use & Victim Blaming During Sexual Violence Victim/Survivor Interactions in the Criminal Justice System.- Chapter 7: Perpetrators or Victims? The Prevent Duty and the Discourse of “Vulnerability” in UK Counter-Radicalisation Policy.- Part III: Progressing Provision for Vulnerable Victims: Proposals to Enhance Professional Practice and Academic Understanding.- Chapter 8: An Intersectional Lens: Prioritising the Voices and Needs of Criminally Exploited Children Through a “Child First” Framework.- Chapter 9: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Minimising Vulnerability Risks for Black Women in the Criminal Justice System.- Chapter 10: Relationships at Risk: Insights into Impulsivity and Aggression in Victim-Informed Domestic Abuse.- Chapter 11: Supporting victim/survivors through the criminal justice process.- Chapter 12: Secondary victimisation: Victim-blaming, Retraumatisation and the Criminal Justice System.- Chapter 13: Best Rhetoric, Worst Practice? A Critical Consideration of Global Responses to Vulnerable Victims.

About the Author :
Kirsty Bennett is a senior lecturer within policing and criminology at Leeds Trinity University, UK. She also runs a voluntary cold case unit, which independently provides reviews of unsolved cases and long-term missing persons. Laura Riley is Lecturer in Criminology at Birmingham City University, UK, and a PhD researcher. Her research concerns desistance from sexual offending and the role of community networks in supporting this. Laura's work examines how positive criminology can prevent recidivism and promote the effective safeguarding of vulnerable people. Her teaching focuses on vulnerabilities, diversity, abuse, multiagency working, policing, ethics, and mental health.