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Book review: R McGarry and S Walklate, Victims: Trauma, Testimony and Justice

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AuthorClaire Fox
DOI10.1177/1362480616678711
Published date01 February 2017
Date01 February 2017
Subject MatterBook reviews
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of green criminology as a harm-based discourse, which does not limit scholarship to
crimes which are defined by states (often with influence from corporations). Legal yet
harmful and destructive activities, environmental and otherwise, presented in all of the
four case studies are legitimate and necessary topics of criminological and genocidal
inquiry. This interdisciplinary investigation is very well done and very well maintained
across the differing genocides under examination. Short should be commended for an
engaging, well-supported and important contribution. Not only should this book be
essential reading for genocide scholars, Redefining Genocide should be read across
indigenous and environmental studies, criminology, sociology, international develop-
ment and political science. Short has set a firm foundation for new research, which can
potentially push genocide studies even further by maintaining a connection to green
criminology and environmental justice.
R McGarry and S Walklate, Victims: Trauma, Testimony and Justice, Routledge: Abingdon, 2015;
177 pp.: 9780415856348, £26.99 (hbk)
Reviewed by: Claire Fox, University of Manchester, UK
This book offers a well-informed, insightful addition to the victimological literature. With
its roots firmly in the Critical Victimology perspective developed by Walklate in 1990,
and later by Mawby and Walklate (1994), Victims: Trauma, Testimony and Justice offers
an attempt to marry the visual representations of victimization with a theoretical frame-
work that allows personal experience to be placed in the foreground, and in a context that
pays attention to the wider structures within which the victimization and subsequent reac-
tions have taken place. As such, this is very much a book concerned with power, represen-
tation and the wider political and social context that continues the conversations started
previously (see, for example, McGarry and Walklate, 2011; Walklate et al., 2011).
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