Narrating Injustice Survival [electronic resource] : Self-medication by Victims of Crime /
de Lint, Willem.author.
Marmo, Marinella.author.
This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery. Based on interviews, counsellor focus groups and a self-medication survey, it situates self-medication among the coping strategies that may be set in formal and informal networks. Victims primarily seek validation, and this book reviews self-medication with particular focus on how victim-survivors develop a variety of reflexive responses in their attempt to carve out a dignified response to victimization. Validation may be achieved through the pursuit of justice, but many victims suffer from multiple or complex victimisation, with limited social chances necessary to achieve a just outcome. Routines, beliefs and an ordered pathway distinguish a dignified identity and more or less successful recovery adaptations. This book also addresses the practical implications of the findings for support organisations. .
Chapter 1. Victims of Crimes, Self-medication and Narratives of (In)justice -- Chapter 2. Methods, collaboration with VSS and victim reflexivity -- Chapter 3. Self-medication and avoidance coping -- Chapter 4. Validation - informal and formal support in narratives of recovery -- Chapter 5. Adaptations in recovery -- Chapter 6. Meaning work and chance -- Chapter 7. Validation, Chance and Justice.
This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery. Based on interviews, counsellor focus groups and a self-medication survey, it situates self-medication among the coping strategies that may be set in formal and informal networks. Victims primarily seek validation, and this book reviews self-medication with particular focus on how victim-survivors develop a variety of reflexive responses in their attempt to carve out a dignified response to victimization. Validation may be achieved through the pursuit of justice, but many victims suffer from multiple or complex victimisation, with limited social chances necessary to achieve a just outcome. Routines, beliefs and an ordered pathway distinguish a dignified identity and more or less successful recovery adaptations. This book also addresses the practical implications of the findings for support organisations. .
Victimology.
Crime-Sociological aspects.
Corrections.
Punishment.
Social justice.
Human rights.
Victimology.
Crime and Society.
Prison and Punishment.
Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.
Human Rights.