RT Article
T1 When ‘ideal victim’ meets ‘criminalised other’: Criminal records and the denial of victimisation
JF Probation journal
VO 69
IS 3
SP 353
OP 372
A1 Bradford-Clarke, Lauren
A2 Davies, Rhiannon
A2 Henley, Andrew
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1815349212
AB This article critically examines the restrictions on access to statutory compensation in Great Britain for victims of serious crime with criminal records. Drawing on original analysis of Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority transparency data it reveals the scale of the denial of victimisation as a so-called ‘collateral consequence of a criminal record’. The policy is then critiqued on the basis that it reproduces the problematic social construction of the ‘ideal victim’, delineates people with criminal records as subaltern citizens and gives rise to harmful secondary victimisation of applicants whose criminal records are often unrelated to their victimisation event.
K1 Blameworthiness
K1 Compensation
K1 Collateral consequences
K1 Victims
K1 less eligibility
K1 Criminal records
DO 10.1177/02645505221095068