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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1: Introduction -- Mumbai, India, 2008 -- Oslo/Utoya, Norway, 2011 -- Cologne, Germany, New Year's Eve, 2015/2016 -- Introducing the Notion of a 'Victim Community' -- The Victimological and the Cultural -- Bearing Witness and Je Suis Charlie -- The Research -- Outline of the Book -- References -- 2: The Paradoxes and Contradictions of 'Victim' and 'Community' -- What (and Who) Is a 'Victim'? -- Some Limitations to Our Victimological Knowledge -- Exploring Victim Identity -- From the Re-emergence of the 'Victim' to Cultural Victimology -- Expanding Understandings of Victim Identity -- Secondary and 'Other' Victims of Crime -- Vicarious Victims -- Labelling, Stigma and Spoiled Identity -- Community, Stigma and Spoiled Identity -- 'Others', Identity and Stigma -- Notions of Community -- Criminogenic Communities: The Link Between Communities and Crime -- Imagined and Symbolic Communities: The Search for Belonging -- Communitas and Liminality -- Community in Late Modernity: A Search for Belonging -- References -- 3: Crime News, Media and Identity -- Media: Production and Reception -- Constructing Crime News -- How 'News' Makes the News -- Primacy of the Visual -- Signal Crimes -- Playing with Identity: The Media -- The Centrality of Victim Discourse -- Media and Collective Identity -- The Media's Cultural Turn -- Vicarious Grief and Imagined Community -- References -- 4: Dunblane: A United Community Divided -- Vignette: 13 March 1996 -- Impact and Consequences -- Press Headlines: A Snapshot -- A Sense of Place -- Unity and Division -- Private or Public Grief? -- A More Hostile Environment -- The 'Victim' Community of Dunblane -- The Fluidity of Identity -- Initial Impact: A Liminal Experience -- A Changing Sense of Community -- Moving on: Back to the Future. |
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Unity and Division: Vehicles for Community and Identity -- United Community Divided -- Whose Crime Is It Anyway? -- Embarrassment of Riches -- Public/Private Grief: Blurred Boundaries -- Our Town as a Focus for Grief -- Media and Blurred Boundaries -- References -- 5: Soham: The Litany of a 'Tragic Town' -- Vignette-4 August 2002 -- Impact and Consequences -- Press Headlines: A Snapshot -- Insider/Outsider -- The Good the Bad and the Ugly: The Reality of Media Intrusion -- The Legacy of Tragic Towns -- Collective Security and Risk -- The Victim Community of Soham -- Identity and Stigma -- The Stigma of an 'Insider' Offender -- Community (Insider) Identity -- Community Through Tragedy -- Community Closing Ranks: Keep Calm and Carry on -- The Consequences of Private/Public Grief: The Media Circus Rolls on -- Collective Victim Identity and the Cultural Imagination -- Grief Tourism and Vicarious Emotion -- Stigmatisation and 'Tragic' Towns -- Grief at a Distance -- References -- 6: Making Sense of 'Victim Communities': Negotiating Collective Identity -- The Ironies of Public Sympathy -- The Gift of Giving -- An Amplification Spiral of Victimisation -- The Litany of Tragic Towns -- Expanding the Victimological Kaleidoscope -- The Late-Modern Victim Community: Invention or Recycling? -- 'Place' and the Grounding of Identity -- The Consumption of Grief: Sorrow as Entertainment -- References -- 7: Conclusion -- References -- Appendix A: Notes on Methodology -- Relations in the Field -- Fieldwork Phase -- Appendix B: Overview of News Content Analysis -- Overall Number of Articles Analysed 477 -- Appendix C: Interviewee Characteristics -- Index. |
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