RT Article
T1 Recognizing the Paradigm of the Unknowing Victim and the Implications of Liminality
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 64
IS 1
SP 194
OP 210
A1 Ost, Suzanne
A2 Gillespie, Alisdair A.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1882174984
AB This article presents the novel conceptualization of the unknowing victim (UV) and addresses the ethical ramifications of this status. Criminology and victimology have primarily focused on knowing victims, but certain crimes occur without the victim’s detection (e.g. sexual assault of an unconscious victim). There is a critical liminal dimension to UV’s status: they are on the threshold between unawareness and conscious awareness of their status as victims of crime and are thus situated on the brink of experiencing harm through their own discovery, or someone else’s disclosure, of the crime committed against them. We call for the recognition of UVs and the temporalities of their embodied experiences, and argue that there is an ethical imperative to prioritize their lived experience.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 208-210
K1 unknowing victims
K1 Liminality
K1 Ignorance
K1 Disclosure
K1 Harm
DO 10.1093/bjc/azad024