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Bringing narrative victimology to transitional justice: Blame, victimhood and life stories of wrongful conviction

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Hearty, Kevin·2023·European Journal of Criminology
DOI 10.1177/14773708211038519
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This article applies a narrative victimological lens of inquiry to the memoirs of those wrongfully convicted of high profile politically violent offences arising from the conflict in the North of Ireland. Using these life stories of wrongful conviction, the article critically examines how nuanced and complex understandings of victimhood and blame emerge from within victims’ own testimony. While on the one hand, victims can ‘story’ victimhood and blame in simplistic ways that echo dominant paradigms found within the criminological literature, at the same time they can ‘story’ victimhood and blame in more sophisticated ways that reflect complex debates found within the transitional justice literature. The ability to take both a more generous approach to victimhood that recognises the harm experienced by others and a more critically self-reflective approach of one's own culpability, it is submitted, shows the potential value that proposed oral history mechanisms have in allowing different perspectives on victimhood and blame to emerge from the testimony of those who suffered harms like wrongful conviction.

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Authors
Hearty, K.
Affiliations
Queen's University Belfast (GB)
Corresponding author
Hearty, Kevin
ORCID
Hearty, Kevin
Venue
European Journal of Criminology
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Published
2021-09-22
Volume
20
Issue
4
Pages
1251-1268
ISSN
  • 1477-3708 (ISSN-L)
  • 1741-2609
DOI
10.1177/14773708211038519
OpenAlex
W3201185705
Cited by
4
References
85
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2022: 1
FWCI
1.66
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Licence
Locations
  • European Journal of Criminology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › War, Law, and Justice
  • Social Sciences › Law › Criminal Justice and Penology
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › History › Memory, violence, and history
Keywords
transitional justice, wrongful convictions, victimhood, blame, life stories, memoirs, Northern Ireland conflict, oral history, victim testimony

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