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7) To set out hypotheses about future research and be able to contrast them with critical analysis and empirical data.

8) To understand the diversity (and injustices) of some victimisation and recovery processes and their social and legal meaning through the study of the implementation of some legislation in force and its limitations.

9) To elaborate documents and presentations in this field.

When we mention the perspective of Spain in the subtitle of the book, we refer mainly to the public policies and the legal framework of Spain, but also to the legal cultural and social aspects of this country, even as they are ever more influenced by the dominant Anglo-Saxon victimological literature, together with the United Nations and the European Union policies.

As mentioned before, the thread that runs through the entire book is the thinking about victimisation and recovery: their meanings for the different stakeholders and their diverse modalities. Throughout the chapters, we try to approach key terms to understand the critical issues with regard to the concepts of victims, victimhood, victimisation risk, impact, reparation and recovery, in different crimes and for diverse populations. Thus, we finally arrive at the concept of restorative justice to argue whether it is possible to construct a more inclusive justice system for victims, while the inertias of the classic criminal justice system seem to overlook the rights and demands of multiple people who have experienced victimisation. Ultimately, victimisation processes can only be understood in relation to power and broader social control processes.