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

55 страница из 99

In some restorative justice literature, the terms “responsible person” and “the harmed person” are preferred by some authors to avoid stigmatisation (Aldington et al. 2020) and to favour full reintegration of both into society.

Image 10: Person harmed/person responsible handmade paper from shredded case notes, Clair Aldington, 2017

As indicated in other works (Varona, 2021)ssss1, a victimisation process is not just an objective or mere descriptive concept for the different experts in the field, these being philosophers, psychologists, criminologists or lawyers. When they perceive and study that victimisation the experts themselves –as part of society– are affected by another process: victimhood. Victimhood is a more concrete concept, where micro and macro elements converge simultaneously. It refers to the process of social (including academic and legal) recognition of the condition or status of being a victim. Victimhood is also unequally distributed in society. Furthermore, both processes (victimisation and victimhood) are related to each other because if victimhood is denied or transformed into victimism, secondary victimisation occurs and contexts for multiple victimisation (revictimisation or poly-victimisation) are created.