A Victim community : Stigma and the media legacy of high-profile crime 1st ed.

Author

• O’Leary, Nicola

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030876791

Series

Palgrave studies in victims and victimology

Subject(s)

• COMMUNITIES
• CRIME AND THE PRESS
• VICTIMS OF CRIMES

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Abstract

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 world’s 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 som

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (viii, 211 p.)

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

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

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00734/22	362.88 OLe V	Online !	Available