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Methods, Collaboration with VSS and Victim Reflexivity

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Narrating Injustice Survival

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The research underpinning this book is based on a survey of crime victims and their behaviours in relation to self-medication (N = 102), qualitative follow-up interviews (N = 15) and focus groups with counsellors (N = 2). The collaboration with Victim Support Services (VSS) in carrying out this research, the methods used and their limitations are explored. We also review the role of VSS in the criminal justice system and in connection to the network of supports that provide intervention, therapy and educational. We situate both VSS and Flinders University in a criminal justice network. In so doing, we seek to recognise the iterative nature of research and practice and the distinct requirements of agencies that understand victims, as per their mandate, through an institutional prism. In this regard, we offer some reflection on the ethics process, the consultations regarding establishing interview protocols and potential ethical dilemmas arising from the intervention of the research into the interviewees’ lives. We situate and develop the idea that the victim is the subject to research and agency mandates and as such he/she is constructed as a subject of rights and dignity.

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de Lint, W., Marmo, M. (2018). Methods, Collaboration with VSS and Victim Reflexivity. In: Narrating Injustice Survival. Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93494-5_2

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