Voice Of The Victim

Author : Mary L. Schuster
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498598477

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The Victim's Voice in the Sexual Misconduct Crisis by Mary L. Schuster Pdf

The Victim’s Voice in the Sexual Misconduct Crisis investigates how a victim’s voice, identity, credibility, and proof are challenged or established in the current sexual misconduct crisis. Using communication and rhetorical analysis, gender studies, and law and society perspectives, Mary Schuster examines concerns such as victim impact statements offered in sentencing hearings of convicted offenders, due process and Title IX requirements in campus sexual assault investigations, and laws and Title VII standards governing workplace sexual harassment complaints. Schuster also analyzes the testimony offered in the 1991 and 1998 U.S. Senate Judiciary Hearings regarding the Supreme Court nominations of Clarence Thomas and Brett Kavanaugh, social movements such as #Me Too, and global activists’ efforts to challenge gender stereotypes and hierarchies. This book argues that we cannot outlaw or legislate away sexual misconduct, but must instead focus on cultural, social, and systemic changes in order to change the current climate. Moreover, the author argues for zero tolerance for sexual misconduct, but recommends a gradation of punishment or sanctions for offenders, offering examples of successful educational and therapeutic efforts to alter misconceptions regarding sexual misconduct. Scholars of gender studies, communication, legal studies, and rhetoric will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Rick Ludwig
Publisher : Babylon Books
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781954871793

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Voice of the Victim by Rick Ludwig Pdf

A beloved husband scientist is shot in Maui’s peaceful ‘Iao Valley. Olympic athletes are killed on luxury cruises around the world. Can two of Maui’s finest stop the violence? Detective Sergeant Keone Boyd travels to the Mediterranean with his new bride, while in Maui, his boss Tony Alcala investigates a horrific shooting in the normally peaceful ‘Iao Valley. Since the victim is a former neighbor of his protégé, Sgt. Angela Beyers, Alcala gives her the case. During her investigation, Angela discovers a file on the victim’s computer with clues to the shooting. But the file was saved while the victim was in a coma and no one else had access. So who left the clues? And how? As Angela investigates, Keone honeymoons on a luxury cruise but is soon recruited by Europol to investigate a serial killer methodically eliminating Olympic athletes. The killer, who claims to be the Greek god of death, has targeted a group of Canadian Olympic medalists on the ship. Does the computer file contain actual memories or a vivid fantasy? Is a mythical god sending athletes to Elysium, or is a deranged maniac murdering them? Are the investigations related or are the lines between reality and fantasy dissolving both on Maui and twelve time zones away? Join Maui’s finest as they investigate the most controversial—and dangerous—cases of their careers. "Rick Ludwig has done it again! With Voice of the Victim, Ludwig expands his universe of clever detectives and intriguing mysteries with a hard-hitting examination of the past and how it shapes us into who we become. A beautiful, fast-paced novel you should pick up today!” RJ Johnson, author of The Twelve Stones “An auto accident destroys Detective Sergeant Keone Boyd’s roadster, plunging him into and unexpected realm as he grapples with a suspect’s alternate reality and unexpected plot twists. this is not your typical investigation. Eyes of the Beholder is a gripping read that leaves you wondering what comes next.” Kenneth Andrus, author of Arctic Menace

Author : Michele Armstrong
Publisher : Carpenter's Son Publishing
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Hidden Bruises in Holy Places: A Victim’s Voice by Michele Armstrong Pdf

The car chase that nearly killed them both was the end of the marriage, but just the beginning of the story… Catch a glimpse of narcissistic religious abuse through the eyes of a survivor of a thirty-year abusive marriage to a minister. Travel the road of darkness on the quest for light. Experience the victory that only comes through healing. Michele Armstrong describes in detail her journey from victim to victor, bringing to light the objective that freedom from the evil grip of abuse is available to everyone through the healing power of Jesus. Anyone can be a victim; and unfortunately, many times abusers are well-respected leaders in society and even in the church. Hiding behind the mask of charisma and charm in the public eye, abusers are monsters behind closed doors. The author exposes the abuser’s secrets and dispels the victim’s shame, while advocating for healing and victory. Through informed awareness, the church can foster a safe and healing environment, and dispel the religious stigma associated with victimization and the aftermath. Exposure dismantles the stronghold, and with awareness comes responsibility of change and a redemptive solution for all individuals, marriages, families, and churches across every corner of the world.

Author : Anthony Bottoms,Julian Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317436775

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Hearing the Victim by Anthony Bottoms,Julian Roberts Pdf

In recent years far more attention has been paid to victims of crime both in terms of awareness of the effect of crime upon their lives, and in changes that have been made to the criminal justice system to improve their rights and treatment. This process seems set to continue, with legislative plans announced to rebalance the criminal justice system in favour of the victim. This latest book in the Cambridge Criminal Justice Series brings together leading authorities in the field to review the role of the victim in the criminal justice system in the context of these developments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom by Anonim Pdf

Author : Adam Crawford,Jo Goodey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781351927253

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Integrating a Victim Perspective within Criminal Justice by Adam Crawford,Jo Goodey Pdf

As numerous academic and political commentators have noted, the implications of introducing a victim’s perspective into the delicate balance between state and offender is likely to be a key issue in the future of criminal justice. This book seeks to outline the contours of the relevant debates drawing together contributions from prominent international and national commentators, from areas including criminology, law, philosophy, social policy, politics and sociology.

Author : Elizabeth King,Rianne Letschert,Sam Garkawe,Erin Pobjie
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030567330

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Victim Advocacy before the International Criminal Court by Elizabeth King,Rianne Letschert,Sam Garkawe,Erin Pobjie Pdf

This book is a practical guide for advocates interested in the representation of victims before the International Criminal Court (ICC). It has been developed by experts responsible for the advocacy training of the International Criminal Court's List of Counsel members. Written in a readily accessible style, this guide provides a firm grounding in relevant legal doctrine, essential advocacy techniques and valuable multidisciplinary perspectives. Drawing upon global expertise from legal practitioners, specialist advocacy trainers and multi-disciplinary writers, this book addresses both practical considerations and key challenges faced by ICC victim advocates. These include issues such as gender, child victims, victims of sexual violence, special need victims and victims who are themselves implicated in international crimes. Through its practical focus on advocacy techniques, hypothetical case studies, checklists, interviews from the field and lists of further resources, this manual equips readers with the knowledge and skills necessary to engage in sophisticated ICC victim advocacy. This book will also appeal to those interested in the workings of International Criminal Law and in victim advocacy and victimology more broadly.

Author : Victorian Government - Department of Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Criminal justice, Administration of
ISBN : 1921028947

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A Victim's Voice by Victorian Government - Department of Justice Pdf

"Victim impact statements provide victims with the opportunity to tell the court in their own words how a crime has affected them." -- publisher's website.

Author : Rhiannon Davies,Lorana Bartels
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781000360882

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The Use of Victim Impact Statements in Sentencing for Sexual Offences by Rhiannon Davies,Lorana Bartels Pdf

Drawing on extensive research from Australia, this book examines the experiences of sexual offence victims who submit a victim impact statement. Victim impact statements are used in sentencing to outline the harm caused to victims. There has been little research on the impact statement experiences of sexual offence victims. This book fills this gap, examining the perspectives of six adult female victims and 15 justice professionals in Australia. This is supplemented by analysis of 100 sentencing remarks, revealing how courts use such statements in practice. This book examines victims’ experiences of preparing and submitting statements, justice professionals’ experiences of working with victims to submit statements, and the judicial use of impact statements in sentencing. It identifies an overarching lack of clarity around the purpose of impact statements, which affects the information that can be included and the way they can be used by the court. It consequently explore issues associated with balancing the expressive and instrumental purposes of such statements, and the challenges in communication between professionals and victims of crime. The findings highlight several issues with the operation of impact statement regimes. Based on these findings, the book makes recommendations to clarify such regimes, to improve communication between justice professionals and victims of crime, and to enhance the therapeutic goals of such statements. An accessible and compelling read, this book is essential reading for all those engaged with victimology, sentencing, and sexual violence.

Author : Denise Huskins,Aaron Quinn,Nicole Weisensee Egan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9780593099971

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Victim F by Denise Huskins,Aaron Quinn,Nicole Weisensee Egan Pdf

The shocking true story of a bizarre kidnapping and the victims' re-victimization by the justice system. In March 2015, Denise Huskins and her boyfriend Aaron Quinn awoke from a sound sleep into a nightmare. Armed men bound and drugged them, then abducted Denise. Warned not to call the police or Denise would be killed. Aaron agonized about what to do. Finally he put his trust in law enforcement and dialed 911. But instead of searching for Denise, the police accused Aaron of her murder. His story, they told him, was just unbelievable. When Denise was released alive, the police turned their fire on her, dubbing her the “real-life ‘Gone Girl’” who had faked her own kidnapping. In Victim F, Aaron and Denise recount the horrific ordeal that almost cost them everything. Like too many victims of sexual violence, they were dismissed, disbelieved, and dragged through the mud. With no one to rely on except each other, they took on the victim blaming, harassment, misogyny, and abuse of power running rife in the criminal justice system. Their story is, in the end, a love story, but one that sheds necessary light on sexual assault and the abuse by law enforcement that all too frequently compounds crime victims’ suffering.

Author : Laurike in 't Veld
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030036263

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The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels by Laurike in 't Veld Pdf

This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In response to the predominantly negative readings of kitsch as meaningless or inappropriate, this book offers a fresh approach that considers how some of the kitsch strategies employed in these works facilitate an affective interaction with the genocide narrative. These productive strategies include the use of the visual metaphors of the animal and the doll figure and the explicit and excessive depictions of mass violence. The book also analyses where kitsch still produces problems as it critically examines depictions of perpetrators and the visual and verbal representations of sexual violence. Furthermore, it explores how graphic novels employ anti-kitsch strategies to avoid the dangers of excess in dealing with genocide. The Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels will appeal to those working in comics-graphic novel studies, popular culture studies, and Holocaust and genocide studies.

Author : Holly L. Guthrey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319124872

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Victim Healing and Truth Commissions by Holly L. Guthrey Pdf

​This book intends to contribute to the growing body of transitional justice literature by providing insight into how truth commissions may be beneficial to victims of mass violence, based on data collected in Timor-Leste and on the Solomon Islands. Drawing on literature in the fields of victim psychology, procedural justice, and transitional justice, this study is guided by the puzzle of why truth-telling in post-conflict settings has been found to be both helpful and harmful to victims of mass violence. Existing studies have identified a range of positive benefits and negative consequences of truth-telling for victims; however, the reasons why some victims experience a sense of healing while others do not after participating in post-conflict truth commission processes continues to remain unclear. Hence, to address one piece of this complex puzzle, this book seeks to begin clarifying how truth-telling may be beneficial for victims by investigating the question: What pathways lead from truth-telling to victim healing in post-conflict settings? Building on the proposition that having voice—a key component of procedural justice—can help individuals to overcome the disempowerment and marginalisation of victimisation, this book investigates voice as a causal mechanism that can create pathways toward healing within truth commission public hearings. Comparative, empirical studies that investigate how truth-telling contributes to victim healing in post-conflict settings are scarce in the field of transitional justice. This book begins to fill an important gap in the existing body of literature. From a practical standpoint, by enhancing understanding of how truth commissions can promote healing, the findings and arguments in this volume provide insight into how the design of transitional justice processes may be improved in the future to better respond to the needs of victims of mass violence.

Author : Mary Lay Schuster,Amy D. Propen
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781555537586

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Victim Advocacy in the Courtroom by Mary Lay Schuster,Amy D. Propen Pdf

This volume examines sentencing hearings in criminal court and the presentation of victim impact statements, as well as child protection cases in juvenile court and the recommendations of guardians ad litem (GALS). Through interviews, observations, and textual analysis, all deeply grounded in an innovative court watch program, the authors illuminate the most effective persuasive practices of victim advocates and GALS as they help protect the rights and needs of victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse. Mary Lay Schuster and Amy D. Propen offer nuanced interpretations of these strategies in the courtroom setting and provide an understanding of how to develop successful advocacy for vulnerable parties in the legal arena.

Author : Nancy S. Berns
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781351519199

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Framing the Victim by Nancy S. Berns Pdf

"Whether you are drawn to this book because of an interest in media, social problems, or domestic violence, reading it will help you better understand the impact media stories have on our perceptions of social problems." That is how Nancy Berns introduces her book. It is a work that unabashedly examines not only domestic violence, but also the larger picture of how politics and processes shape our responses to social problems. Framing the Victim also distinguishes serious research from media, which promote entertainment, empowerment, and drama.

Author : Robert Trainor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1520760205

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The Voice of the Victim by Robert Trainor Pdf

NOTE: This novel can also be purchased with four other novels of mine for $3.99 in an anthology entitled 5 Novels. The Voice of the Victim is also contained in The Blackwater Novels, which can be purchased for $3.99.Originally entitled Sarcasm, Murder, and Outrage...not only is this a clever murder mystery, but it also doubles as a satirical tour through Darwin City and the modern world of guns, murder, and mayhem...a mixture of slapstick comedy, dark premonitions, and a sweeping indictment of everything that Western culture has ever produced...sassy and extremely irreverent...sometimes romantic and poetic, sometimes mocking and belligerent...too bizarre for some, too intense for others...never trite but always real...this is the most controversial book that you will ever read.What follows is the Preface.During the month of June, in 1999, I became entangled in a number of tragic events that completely altered the way I came to look at life. Although these incidents remained only locally significant and were not widely reported in the national media, they are certainly dramatic enough to merit their space in print. Beyond that, however, I discovered something that is far more important to me than the juvenile thrill of seeing my name on the cover of a book: As the detection of a certain clue at a murder scene points inevitably to the perpetrator, the experience of becoming a living victim led me to a realization that is actually--despite many humorous interludes--the subject of what you are about to read.For legal, ethical, and poetical reasons, I have changed the names of everyone who was involved in these crimes as well as the city where they occurred. The names I have chosen were not arrived at casually but are an artistic attempt to portray the essential and true character of contemporary life. It will be said that I exaggerate or that I am cynical and bitter, but I view myself as an advocate for all the vanishing victims of our world because I have experienced, in my mind, the sounds of their screams. They have not gone gently into oblivion but are screaming, screaming to be heard. The modern-day martyrs have something to tell us, and it is, in my opinion, far more relevant than what the living are propagating, which amounts to nothing.