A New Approach for Researching Victims: the ‘Strength-Growth-Resilience’ Framework (2021)
Journal Article
Green, S., Calverley, A., & O’Leary, N. (in press). A New Approach for Researching Victims: the ‘Strength-Growth-Resilience’ Framework. The British journal of criminology, Article azaa093. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azaa093

This paper proposes a new framework for researching victims that blends appreciative inquiry methods used by prison researchers (Liebling, Elliott and Arnold 2001) with narrative interview methods used by desistance researchers (Maruna 2001) to inves... Read More about A New Approach for Researching Victims: the ‘Strength-Growth-Resilience’ Framework.

A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime (2021)
Book
O’Leary, N. (2021). A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-87679-1

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... Read More about A Victim Community: Stigma and the Media Legacy of High-Profile Crime.