03180nam 2200457 450 991051359310332120230630002541.09783030876791(electronic bk.)3030876799(electronic bk.)(CKB)20133873000041(OCoLC)1288632283(OCoLC)1288659778(OCoLC)1288962373(OCoLC)1289240289(OCoLC)1291316433(Au-PeEL)EBL6826355(MiAaPQ)EBC6826355(OCoLC)1288632283(OCoLC)1288659778(OCoLC)1288962373(OCoLC)1289240289(EXLCZ)992013387300004120220827d2021 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA victim community stigma and the media legacy of high-profile crime /Nicola O'LearyCham, Switzerland :Palgrave Macmillan,[2021]©20211 online resource (viii, 211 pages)Palgrave studies in victims and victimologyPrint version: O'Leary, Nicola. Victim community. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021 9783030876784 (OCoLC)1285704200 Includes bibliographical references and index.Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Paradoxes and Contradictions of Victim and Community -- Chapter 3: Crime News, Media and Identity -- Chapter 4: Dunblane: A United Community Divided -- Chapter 5: Soham: The Litany of a Tragic Town -- Chapter 6: Making Sense of Victim Communities: Negotiating Collective Identity -- Chapter 7: Conclusion.Although historically ignored, crime victims are now very firmly on the map. For politicians, newspapers, the media and the public at large, criminal injury and loss are a source of constant concern and anxiety. Criminologists and media analysts have studied much of this concern in recent years but what has not been investigated is how communities experience high profile crimes and the media intrusion that inevitably follows. This book seeks to address this gap by exploring how the communities of Soham and Dunblane, that witnessed high profile crimes, lived with the tragic events at the time and the attention of the worlds media afterwards. Based on a two-year qualitative study of these communities, this book looks beneath the surface of the relationships, dilemmas and unexpected triumphs of communities struggling to come to terms with the most harrowing of events, within the glare of the media spotlight. Combining empirical observations with media analysis and social theory, this book offers something new to the criminological audience: the concept of the victim community. Nicola OLeary is Lecturer in Criminology in the Department of Criminology and Sociology at the University of Hull, UK.Palgrave studies in victims and victimologyCrime and the pressCrime and the press.323.44O'Leary Nicola1071062MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQ9910513593103321A Victim Community2565807UNINA