Narrating injustice survival: self-medication by victims of crime

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 primaril...

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Main Authors: de Lint, Willem (Author), Marmo, Marinella 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing [2018]
Cham Palgrave Macmillan
Series:Palgrave studies in victims and victimology
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Online Access:Volltext
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (XI, 224 p. 12 illus., 11 illus. in color)
ISBN:9783319934945
DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-93494-5

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