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This timely and comprehensive collection of discussions on victimology, victims of crime and victim protection policies in the Balkans and beyond engages readers with the current state of the art of regional victimology in the Balkans and Central Europe. Original contributions from as many as ten countries of the region analyse the development of victimology, victim protection policies and practices, as well as major areas of victimological research. The main idea of the book at hand is to provide an insight into the complex nature of victimisation in contemporary societies and a deeper understanding of the nature of, and responses to, victimisation in the context of the criminal justice system and civil society. Chapters about the recent developments of victimology in Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, and Turkey reflect on cultural victimology and contextualisation of victimology and victimological thought from a broader societal perspective. More importantly, the chapters thus present, for the first time, a comparative and contextual account of regional contributions to present-day victimology. This publication is a milestone of victimological research calling for a follow-up and more comparative victimological studies in the future, improvement of practice in victim protection and more feasible victim protection policies.
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Gorazd Mesko, Anna-Maria Getos Kalac & Michael Kilchling: Introduction to »Balkan Victimology«Part One: Introduction and AbstractsAntony Pemberton: Balkan Victimology as an Important Contribution to Cultural VictimologyZoran Kanduc: Victims, Victimisers, Postmodern Culture, Neoliberal Capitalism, and the Case of Slovenia as a Transitional SocietyAbstractsPart Two: Country ChaptersEvisa Kambellari: Albania: Victimology and Victim ProtectionMonika Stempkowski & Barbara Kraml: AustriaAzra Adzajlic-Dedovic & Miodrag Simovic: Bosnia and Herzegovina: The Development of Victimology and Victim ProtectionKamen Lyubomirov Novikov: BulgariaAnna-Maria Getos Kalac, Suncana Roksandic Vidlicka & Zoran Buric: Croatia: Victimology, Victimisation (Typology) & Victim ProtectionAndrea Tünde Barabás: Hungary: Victimisation and Victim-Related Questions of Restorative JusticeÁkos Kara, Anna Kiss, Eszter Sárik & Viktória Szentmihályi-Soós: Hungary: Victimology in HungaryVelimir Rakocevic & Aleksandra Jovanovic: Montenegro: Victimology and Victim ProtectionGordana Lazetic & Aleksandra Gruevska Drakulevski: North Macedonia: Victimology and Victim ProtectionAndra-Roxana Trandafir & Flaviu Ciopec: RomaniaVesna Nikolic-Ristanovic & Sanja Copic: Serbia: Victimology and Victim ProtectionGorazd Mesko, Katja Eman, Rok Hacin & Urska Pirnat: Slovenia: Victimology and Victimological Research - Past, Present, and Future ChallengesTuba Topçuoglu & Selman Dursun: Turkey: Victimology and Victim Protection
