Victimological futures: Exploring new approaches to victimisation and justice

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

This panel brings together four papers that explore innovative ways of thinking about victimisation and justice. The presentations will examine: experiences of justice as a dialogue for women victimised by their intimate partners; civil justice as a method of accessing justice for survivors of sexual violence; the use of memory activism among survivors of the Magdalene Laundries a mechanism for justice that moves beyond the criminal justice system; and what queer and abolitionist theory can teach us about imagining alternatives to ‘victim’ as a conceptual category.

Subtopic

• Topic 4: Victimology / Consequences of Victimization (Victimology WG)

Chair

• Hannah Marshall, University of Warwick, UK

Individual Presentations

• Justice ‘dialogues’: the experiences of intimate partner abuse victims - Joana Ferreira, Department of Social and Policy Sciences, University of Bath

• Innovative Approaches to Victim Justice: is Civil law the answer to the Justice Gap? - Stephanie FOHRING, Northumbria University, UK

• Victim abolitionism - Hannah Marshall, University of Warwick, UK

• Beyond Criminal Justice: Civil Redress, Memory Activism, and Survivor-Led Justice - Jennifer O'Mahoney, South East Technological University