Publication Date:
2024-04-14
Description:
This book provides a rich analysis of the history of Swedish victim support. With the majority of research on victim support centering on the Anglosphere, this book offers a unique case study for considering the role of the victim in the criminal justice system. While Sweden has enacted many laws to support victims, and victim assistance programs have grown rapidly, welfare policy has become more restrictive and crime policy, to some degree, more punitive. Drawing on archival material and interviews with key representatives for the Swedish Association for Victim Support (BOJ), this book examines what role the victim movement has played in a changing welfare state. It argues that BOJ filled a function in the decentralization and privatization of the Swedish welfare state and explores distinctive features of the Swedish victim movement and the form it has taken, as compared to that in other countries. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, civil society studies, and social work, and those engaged in studies of victims and victimology.
Keywords:
Violence against Women
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Welfare State
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Victim Support Sweden
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Voluntary Sector
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Comparative Victimology
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Victim Services
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Victim Support
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Young Crime Victims
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Victim Support Centers
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National Crime Prevention Program
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Crime Victims
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National Children’s Center
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Crime Victim Fund
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Victim Offender Overlap
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Criminal Injuries Compensation
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Victim Support Programs
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Victim Support Organization
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Criminal Injuries Compensation Act
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AVS
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Weisser Ring
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Women’s Shelters
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Local Victim Support
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Victim Support Schemes
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thema EDItEUR::V Health, Relationships and Personal development
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKS Social welfare and social services::JKSN Social work
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thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues::LAR Legal aspects of criminology
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thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNF Criminal law: procedure and offences::LNFB Criminal justice law
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thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNF Criminal law: procedure and offences::LNFX Criminal procedure::LNFX1 Sentencing and punishment
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHB Sociology
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFK Violence and abuse in society
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thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JK Social services and welfare, criminology::JKV Crime and criminology
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thema EDItEUR::L Law::LN Laws of specific jurisdictions and specific areas of law::LNT Social law and Medical law
Language:
English
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