Читать книгу Approaching Victimology as social science for Human rights a Spanish perspective онлайн

54 страница из 99

According to Chanel Miller (2020), victim and author of the book Know my name, she is a victim needing and claiming the social acknowledgement of having suffered an underserved harm, but the problem with the term “victim” comes when saying that “she is a victim of the aggressor” meaning that she is mainly a victim attached and reduced to a concrete event, when she is and will be much more than that, and meaning that the aggressor is the active role in those happenings and its aftermath when she is the survivor holding an agentic role beyond mere sorrow and secondary victimisation of the criminal justice system. As mentioned before, to avoid patronising, encapsulating or passivity connotations, some victims or support/activist groups prefer the term survivor or harmed/victimised persons instead of the term “victim” (Romero-Sánchez et al., 2021). In any case, some victims do not survive, for example in the most extreme cases, the direct victims of a murder. Apart from those cases, some academics do not agree with the connotations of the translation of the term survivor to other languages. For example, think in Spanish, about the terms “sobreviviente” or “superviviente, which suggest barely living (instead of fully living).