Narrating Injustice Survival
Self-medication by Victims of Crime
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Beschreibung
This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery. Based on interviews, counsellor focus groups and a self-medication survey, it situates self-medication among the coping strategies that may be set in formal and informal networks. Victims primarily seek validation, and this book reviews self-medication with particular focus on how victim-survivors develop a variety of reflexive responses in their attempt to carve out a dignified response to victimization. Validation may be achieved through the pursuit of justice, but many victims suffer from multiple or complex victimisation, with limited social chances necessary to achieve a just outcome. Routines, beliefs and an ordered pathway distinguish a dignified identity and more or less successful recovery adaptations. This book also addresses the practical implications of the findings for support organisations.
This book explores the role of self-medication in reflexive response to victimhood and victim recovery. Based on interviews, counsellor focus groups and a self-medication survey, it situates self-medication among the coping strategies that may be set in formal and informal networks. Victims primarily seek validation, and this book reviews self-medication with particular focus on how victim-survivors develop a variety of reflexive responses in their attempt to carve out a dignified response to victimization. Validation may be achieved through the pursuit of justice, but many victims suffer from multiple or complex victimisation, with limited social chances necessary to achieve a just outcome. Routines, beliefs and an ordered pathway distinguish a dignified identity and more or less successful recovery adaptations. This book also addresses the practical implications of the findings for support organisations.
Considers recovery narratives and the variety of reflexive responses to victimization Explores the intersection of victim self-medication and a dignified identity Discusses informal and formal support networks
Autor*in
Willem de Lint
Themen in »Narrating Injustice Survival«
victim rights Victimology Coping Strategies Drug abuse Self Medication Recovery Victim Support Service Victim narratives Survey alcohol abuse drugs
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“This book covers an important topic that is often overlooked in victimology and criminology, self-medication by crime victims. It is vital that we better understand this phenomenon and how it impacts lives, in order to better assist victims as they try to cope with the consequences of criminal victimization. Drug and alcohol addiction is an important part of the process that links victimization with offending behavior that serves to remind us that victims and offenders are not always two separate groups.” (Jo-Anne Wemmers, Ph.D, Professor of Criminology, University of Montreal, Canada)
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