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A New Approach for Researching Victims: The ‘Strength-Growth-Resilience’ Framework

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Green, Simon, Calverley, Adam, O’Leary, Nicola·2021·The British Journal of Criminology
DOI 10.1093/bjc/azaa093
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This paper proposes a new framework for researching victims that blends appreciative inquiry methods used by prison researchers with narrative interview methods used by desistance researchers to investigate victim ‘strength-growth-resilience’. Alongside established victimological concerns with the extent, distribution and treatment of crime victims, this framework offers an alternative lens that focuses on victim agency, identity and transformation. Building on the emancipatory project of feminist victimology, narrative and cultural criminology and an emerging narrative victimology the framework aims to provide a new conceptual reference point for victimological research. The article’s objectives are to demonstrate that this framework delivers a theoretically, empirically and ethically robust approach for exploring the mechanisms by which victims become resilient, and can even flourish, in the aftermath of criminal harm.

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  • Telling their story empowers victims to speak for themselves, make sense of how their experience changed them, educate others, and challenge ongoing and future abuses of power.

    “It empowers victims to 'speak for themselves' (McGarry & Walklate, 2015:4), to 'make sense' of how their experience has changed them as a person (Green et al., 2021), to educate others about their experience (Westervelt & Cook, 2008;Westlund, 2018) and to challenge ongoing and future abuses of power (Savage et al., 2007;Hearty, 2021).”

    From The Zemiological Afterlife of Wrongful Conviction: Spoiled Identity, Repair and Survivorship (2024) · cites this paper as Green et al., 2021

  • Narratives can help victims work through their spoiled identity and acknowledge their post-victimisation growth.

    “This highlights the role that narratives can play in helping victims to work through their 'spoiled identity' and to acknowledge their post-victimisation growth (Green et al., 2021;van den Ven & Pemberton, 2021).”

    From The Zemiological Afterlife of Wrongful Conviction: Spoiled Identity, Repair and Survivorship (2024) · cites this paper as Green et al., 2021

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Authors
Green, S., Calverley, A., & O’Leary, N.
Affiliations
University of Hull (GB)
Corresponding author
Green, Simon
ORCID
Venue
The British Journal of Criminology
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Published
2021-02-08
Volume
61
Issue
3
Pages
852-871
ISSN
  • 0007-0955 (ISSN-L)
  • 1464-3529
DOI
10.1093/bjc/azaa093
OpenAlex
W3127789035
Cited by
27
References
109
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 3 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 3
FWCI
13.20
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • The British Journal of Criminology (publishedVersion)
  • Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull) (acceptedVersion, other-oa)
  • Repository@Hull (Worktribe) (University of Hull) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • British Academy
  • Leverhulme Trust (SG161060)
  • COST Association (CA18121)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Social Sciences › Gender Studies › Sexual Assault and Victimization Studies
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Keywords
appreciative inquiry, narrative interviews, victim agency, victim identity, cultural criminology, desistance from crime

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