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Which Victim Movement? The Politics of Victim Policy

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What would we say about a movement that apparently forgot to invite most of its professed beneficiaries? What if we discovered, for example, in the victims ‘movement’ that victims were, politically, all dressed up, but had no place to go? What kind of movement would it be? Would it really be any movement at all?

It is time to recognize the larger contours and consequences of developments political scientists have long studied as fragments ... Laws and official actions that reassure or threaten without much warrant ... are doubtless conceived ... as discrete events; but when, taken together, they reach a critical mass of complementary programs, they become an essential part of a new political pattern ... that converts liberal and radical watchwords of the past into conservative bastions of the future.

Murray Edelman

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    Ezzat A. Fattah (Professor of Criminology) (Professor of Criminology)

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Elias, R. (1992). Which Victim Movement? The Politics of Victim Policy. In: Fattah, E.A. (eds) Towards a Critical Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22089-2_4

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