RT Article
T1 Victimization as transformative experience: A phenomenological perspective
JF Theoretical criminology
VO 29
IS 2
SP 214
OP 230
A1 Pemberton, Antony 1975-
A2 Mulder, Eva
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1925896803
AB Dominant approaches to victimization define it in terms of (psychological) suffering and norm transgression. A critical approach endorses more-inclusive examinations of harm and turns to victims to hear and learn from their experiences. In this article, we illustrate how a phenomenological approach contributes to this endeavour and can illuminate often neglected aspects of victimization. We engage in a close reading of Susan Brison's Aftermath and other autobiographical works of severe victimization, integrating key phenomenological understandings of being and death by Martin Heidegger and Emmanuel Levinas in our analysis. We consider the implications of understanding victimization as an experience of a collapse of a meaningful world through the other's exploitation of victims’ existence.
K1 Levinas
K1 Susan Brison
K1 Heidegger
K1 Phenomenology
K1 Victimisation
DO 10.1177/13624806241271764