Professor Simon Green S.T.Green@hull.ac.uk
Director of the Wilberforce Institute
Cultures Of Victimology: understanding processes of victimization across Europe
People Involved
Dr Nicola O'Leary N.Oleary@hull.ac.uk
Reader in Criminology
Project Description
Victimology as an academic endeavour has shown a remarkable growth in the past decades, and although victims are no longer the ‘forgotten party’ of the criminal justice system, the increased attention has been both topically and geographically lopsided. Victims of certain forms of criminal behaviour (domestic and sexual violence for instance) have commanded the lion's share of academic and policy interest, and the research on victim’s experience is mainly conducted in the Anglo-Saxon world. This results in more rapid advances in certain areas of victimology, while elsewhere basic victimological questions have yet to receive an answer.
This COST-Action intends to develop an innovative, functional and overarching theoretical framework for cultural victimology. Understanding the mediating and moderating influence of cultural constructs on victimology will improve understanding of the extent to which the current victimological knowledge base can be generalized from the types of victimization and geographical locations that have been relatively extensively studied to elsewhere. A greater grasp of this complexity in return will offer greater insight into the underlying causal factors of this current research base, as well as offer new perspectives and lines of inquiry. It is, therefore, not only to the benefit of understanding the current grey and dark areas of victimological research, but will also shed further light on those fields of knowledge that have already been more heavily illuminated.
| Type of Project | Standard |
|---|---|
| Project Acronym | COV-E |
| Status | Project Complete |
| Funder(s) | European Commission |
| Value | £71,905.00 |
| Project Dates | Sep 1, 2019 - Feb 28, 2025 |
| Partner Organisations | Leeds Beckett University Erciyes University Istanbul Bilgi University Leuven International and European Studies Orebro University University of Lleida Instituto Vasco de Criminología Institute for Criminal-Law Ethics and Criminology University of Maribor Belgrade University Faculty of Juridical, Political and Administrative Sciences Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro Centre for Research in Anthropology Adam Mickiewicz University University of Warmia and Mazury Oslo Metropolitan University University of Oslo European University Skopje Skopje, University Leiden university Tilburg University Institute for Sociology and Psychology Administrative Court of Montenegro Promo LEX Association Institute of Legal, Political and Sociological Research University of Malta Université du Luxembourg Vilnius University University of Bologna The Open University of Israel Bar-Ilan University Waterford Institute of Technology University of Limerick Panteion University Of Social And Political Sciences Institute of Police and Security Research (Institut für Polizei- und Sicherheitsforschung - IPoS) Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law Université Paris 13 University of Tartu University of Copenhagen Institute of Criminology and Social Prevention (IKSP) University of Cyprus J.J.University of Osijek University of Zagreb South-West University Neophit Rilski University of Sarajevo University of Tuzla Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Sigmund Freud University Johannes Kepler Universität Linz Center for Arbëresh Studies and Publications University College Bedër |
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