Victimology: A Conversion of Narratives

Tapley, Jacki; Davies, Pamela

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-42288-2_1

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“…Victimization denotes the exploitation, harm, or oppression experienced by an individual because of someone's actions or omissions. Consequently, it results in psychological, emotional, physical, sexual, or economic harm to the victim (Tapley & Davies, 2020). Victimization impedes assumptions most individuals inherently hold; the faith in personal immunity, the view that the world has meaning and purpose as well as positively perceiving oneself.…”

Section: Victimizationmentioning

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“You are reminded that you don’t have power”: The victimization of security guards working in Gauteng, South Africa

Jansen van Rensburg,

Buthelezi,

Nkwana

et al. 2023

IJRBS

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Security guards face victimization in the workplace as well as through the nature of their employment as first responders to criminal activity. Consequently, these risks threaten their job satisfaction, well-being, and turnover rate in the industry. Exacerbating the problem further is the dearth of scientific studies and reliable reports on the victimization of security guards specific to the South African context. Thus, the goal of the study is to explore the victimization of security guards working in Gauteng, South Africa. This paper is informed by 14 qualitative one-on-one interviews with security guards. The narrative accounts provide rich and descriptive data which were thematically analyzed. The findings suggest that security guards experience victimization in terms of their working conditions and crime victimization while on duty. Moreover, the implications of victimization are exposed. Interestingly, a recurring theme throughout the paper is the sense of powerlessness experienced by the participants as substantiated through literature. This paper makes a unique contribution to industry and academia due to the dearth of scientific studies and reports on the victimization of security guards specific to the South African context. Additionally, the paper advocates for working towards sustainable solutions through work engagement, awareness, training, and effective management strategies.

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Section: Victimizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

“You are reminded that you don’t have power”: The victimization of security guards working in Gauteng, South Africa

Jansen van Rensburg,

Buthelezi,

Nkwana

et al. 2023

IJRBS

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“…Narrative victimology, while closely connected to narrative criminology, has roots in midcentury criminology and truly emerged as a subfield in the 1970s, when victims' rights movements gained traction with the voting public in Europe and the United States (Tapley and Davies, 2020). Victims' narratives, due to their personal and emotional nature, have significantly impacted public policy, particularly with respect to domestic violence legal reform (Walklate et al, 2019).…”

Section: Narrative Criminology and Narrative Victimologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Dying to survive: Ransom piracy and ontologies of death in Coastal Somalia

Gilmer

Dewey

2022

International Review of Victimology

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Interactions between long-term hostages and hostage takers remain undertheorized in criminology, and the present study attempts to fill this gap by utilizing testimonials from long-term hostages held aboard ships. We argue that seafarer hostages’ testimonials depict hijacked vessels as carceral sites that reflect and reproduce the global economic inequalities and racialized patterns of violence undergirding the broader geopolitics of piracy. Utilizing a threefold theoretical framework that unites and builds upon narrative inquiry, narrative criminology and victimology, and thanatopolitics, our analytical energies focus on the centrality of ontologies of death in hostages’ accounts of being held for ransom aboard ships. Our findings emphasize how ontologies of death evident in ransom piracy hostages’ accounts represent the hostage experience as encompassing different states of death, with hostages describing death as a real and ever-present threat that variously encompasses a psychological state of survival, a dehumanizing force, and a disciplinary tactic.

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Reinforcing Digital Forensics Through Intelligent Behavioural Evidence Analysis: Social Media Hate Speech Profiling

Barkhashree

Dhaliwal

2022

Artificial Intelligence and Speech Technology

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Victimology: A Conversion of Narratives

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

“You are reminded that you don’t have power”: The victimization of security guards working in Gauteng, South Africa

“You are reminded that you don’t have power”: The victimization of security guards working in Gauteng, South Africa

Dying to survive: Ransom piracy and ontologies of death in Coastal Somalia

Reinforcing Digital Forensics Through Intelligent Behavioural Evidence Analysis: Social Media Hate Speech Profiling

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