dc.contributor.author | Holder, RL | |
dc.contributor.editor | Antje Deckert, Rick Sarre | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-10-12T01:34:08Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-10-12T01:34:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9783319557465 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/978-3-319-55747-2_43 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368439 | |
dc.description.abstract | This 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.peerreviewed | Yes | |
dc.language | English | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.publisher | Palgrave Macmillan | |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | |
dc.relation.ispartofbooktitle | The Palgrave Handbook of Australian and New Zealand Criminology, Crime and Justice | |
dc.relation.ispartofchapter | 43 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom | 649 | |
dc.relation.ispartofpageto | 664 | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearch | Criminology not elsewhere classified | |
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode | 440299 | |
dc.title | Victims, Legal Consciousness, and Legal Mobilisation | |
dc.type | Book chapter | |
dc.type.description | B1 - Chapters | |
dc.type.code | B - Book Chapters | |
gro.faculty | Arts, Education & Law Group, School of Criminology and Criminal Justice | |
gro.hasfulltext | No Full Text | |
gro.griffith.author | Holder, Robyn L. | |