Understanding Prisoner Victimisation
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 w...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Palgrave Macmillan
2024, 2024
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2024 |
| Series: | Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
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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