Contents

pp iii-iv

List of abbreviations

pp v-v

Notes on contributors

pp vi-xi

Acknowledgements

pp xii-xii

Foreword: thinking beyond the ideal

pp xiii-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction

pp 1-10

The Ideal Victim by Nils Christie

pp 11-24

Part I - Exploring the ‘Ideal Victim’

pp 25-26

One - The ideal victim through other(s’) eyes

pp 27-42

Two - Creating ideal victims in hate crime policy

pp 43-62

Three - The lived experiences of veiled Muslim women as ‘undeserving’ victims of Islamophobia

pp 63-82

Four - Being ‘ideal’ or falling short? The legitimacy of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender victims of domestic violence and hate crime

pp 83-102

Five - New victimisations: female sex worker hate crime and the ‘ideal victim’

pp 103-122

Six - The ‘ideal migrant victim’ in human rights courts: between vulnerability and otherness

pp 123-140

Seven - ‘Our most precious possession of all’: the survivor of non-recent childhood sexual abuse as the ideal victim?

pp 141-158

Eight - ‘Idealising’ domestic violence victims

pp 159-174

Nine - Environmental crime, victimisation, and the ideal victim

pp 175-192

Part II - Exploring the ‘Non-Ideal’ Victim

pp 193-194

Ten - Revisiting the non-ideal victim

pp 195-210

Eleven - Conceptualising victims of anti-social behaviour is far from ‘ideal’

pp 211-228

Twelve - The ‘ideal’ rape victim and the elderly woman: a contradiction in terms?

pp 229-242

Thirteen - Denying victim status to online fraud victims: the challenges of being a ‘non-ideal victim’

pp 243-262

Fourteen - Male prisoners’ vulnerabilities and the ideal victim concept

pp 263-278

Fifteen - A decade after Lynndie: non-ideal victims of non-ideal offenders – doubly anomalised, doubly invisibilised

pp 279-296

Sixteen - Towards an inclusive victimology and a new understanding of public compassion to victims: from and beyond Christie’s ideal victim

pp 297-312

Conclusion

pp 313-314

Index

pp 315-322