Evaluating Victim Impact Statements: Applications and Challenges

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Evaluating Victim Impact Statements: Applications and Challenges

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Victimology in Africa critically analyses hidden victimisation in society, dehumanising notions of victimhood, victimisation patterns, secondary victimisation by the Western criminal justice system together with the exploitation of international financial institutions and the misappropriation of traditional knowledge on the African continent. Its African approach to victimology – one that celebrates intense humanness and universal interconnectedness – can be considered an emerging area of specialisation in the field. Such an alternative framework refers to the historical, cultural, political and socioeconomic dimensions of victimisation on the colonial–postcolonial continuum and considers macro and micro links between interpersonal victimisation and victimisation in broader society.

Victimology in Africa contains a cutting-edge presentation of contemporary scholarly discourse that is relevant both contextually and globally, seeking to stimulate further empirical enquiry and theory development, and to inform policy and practice.

The Desmond & Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation is honored to endorse the third edition of Victimology in Africa. The literature is a move away from the westernised approach to justice to one that seeks to  focus on the humanness of those affected and using the philosophy of Ubuntu, drawing on traditional/restorative approaches to justice.

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Citation Info

James, C., & Cronje, M. (2019). Evaluating Victim Impact Statements: Applications and Challenges. In R. Peacock (Ed.), Victimology in Africa. Van Schaik.

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“Evaluating Victim Impact Statements: Applications and Challenges,” Outstanding Faculty Publications, accessed March 28, 2024, https://facpub.library.fresnostate.edu/items/show/36.