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dc.contributor.authorHolder, RL
dc.contributor.editorAntje Deckert, Rick Sarre
dc.date.accessioned2018-10-12T01:34:08Z
dc.date.available2018-10-12T01:34:08Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.isbn9783319557465
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_43
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/368439
dc.description.abstractThis chapter considers the social construction of law from victim perspectives. Asking what “law” is to victims helps to illuminate the understandings they bring to legal mobilisation. Through a re-examination of the literature on reporting crime, the author explores the spaces between meaning-making and people’s actions. It takes seriously the idea that ordinary people can be legal actors yet takes a critical view of what law offers and how people assess its relationship to them. The mobilisation of criminal law is discussed as a practice influenced by cultural as well as legal schemas. The chapter argues that victims not only make law by activating it but also participate in civic governance.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherPalgrave Macmillan
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitleThe Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice
dc.relation.ispartofchapter43
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom649
dc.relation.ispartofpageto664
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminology not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440299
dc.titleVictims, Legal Consciousness, and Legal Mobilisation
dc.typeBook chapter
dc.type.descriptionB1 - Chapters
dc.type.codeB - Book Chapters
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorHolder, Robyn L.


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