RT Article
T1 A New Approach for Researching Victims: The ‘Strength-Growth-Resilience’ Framework
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 61
IS 3
SP 852
OP 871
A1 Green, Simon
A2 Calverley, Adam
A2 O’Leary, Nicola
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1760587958
AB This paper proposes a new framework for researching victims that blends appreciative inquiry methods used by prison researchers with narrative interview methods used by desistance researchers to investigate victim ‘strength-growth-resilience’. Alongside established victimological concerns with the extent, distribution and treatment of crime victims, this framework offers an alternative lens that focuses on victim agency, identity and transformation. Building on the emancipatory project of feminist victimology, narrative and cultural criminology and an emerging narrative victimology the framework aims to provide a new conceptual reference point for victimological research. The article’s objectives are to demonstrate that this framework delivers a theoretically, empirically and ethically robust approach for exploring the mechanisms by which victims become resilient, and can even flourish, in the aftermath of criminal harm.
K1 Resilience
K1 Appreciative Inquiry
K1 Desistance
K1 Narrative
K1 cultural victimology
K1 Identity
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa093