TY  - GEN
AU  - Gallo,Carina
AU  - Svensson,Kerstin
TI  - Victim Support and the Welfare State
PY  - 2019///
PB  - Taylor & Francis
KW  - Crime & criminology
KW  - bicssc
KW  - comparative victimology
KW  - victim services
KW  - victim support Sweden
KW  - violence against women
KW  - voluntary sector
KW  - welfare state
N1  - Open Access
N2  - This book provides a rich analysis of the history of Swedish victim support. With the majority of research on victim support centering on the Anglosphere, this book offers a unique case study for considering the role of the victim in the criminal justice system. While Sweden has enacted many laws to support victims, and victim assistance programs have grown rapidly, welfare policy has become more restrictive and crime policy, to some degree, more punitive. Drawing on archival material and interviews with key representatives for the Swedish Association for Victim Support (BOJ), this book examines what role the victim movement has played in a changing welfare state. It argues that BOJ filled a function in the decentralization and privatization of the Swedish welfare state and explores distinctive features of the Swedish victim movement and the form it has taken, as compared to that in other countries.This book will be of interest to scholars and students of criminology, sociology, social policy, civil society studies, and social work, and those engaged in studies of victims and victimology
UR  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/37531/1/9781138584792_text.pdf
UR  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/27374
ER  -