Victim Participation in Criminal Justice – Call for Submissions to Special Issue Journal
The International Criminology Journal is preparing for a Special Thematic Issue, titled ‘From under the shadow of the state: European perspectives on victim participation in criminal justice‘. For this issue, the editors are looking for submissions that describe European practices of Victim Participation in Criminal Justice in Europe.
Victim participation is deep-rooted in criminal justice globally but has been contentious in contemporary academic, legal and policy debates. This Thematic Issue explores these debates through a European lens. Civil law monosystems and hybrids dominate the world’s legal systems but common law scholarship has skewed debates. We aim to unpack variation to victim participation within European civil legal traditions by examining differentiation to victims’ legal standing and rights in the European jurisdictions.
The Thematic Issue will expand beyond a preoccupation with punitive policy to explore the relationship between victim participation and different topics such as criminal justice and public confidence, Europe’s internal harmonisation and its globalised projection of human rights values. The Thematic Issue draws on research that has examined victims’ hybrid roles with and independent of the public prosecutor in Germany and Norway (Kury & Kilchling, 2011; Laugerud & Langballe, 2017), independent victim legal representation in Iceland, Sweden and Netherlands (Antonsdottir, 2018; Carrol, 2021; Elbers et al. 2020), compensation claims via the adhesion procedure (Antonsdottir 2020), and victim voice (Booth, Bosma & Lens, 2018; Lens et al., 2015), as well as comparative European scholarship on lay participation (Malsch, 2009).
The Thematic Issue Editors seek submissions that are empirical and/or theoretical. We encourage both senior and early career scholars as well as academic-practitioner co-authors and practitioner-researcher contributions.
Your submission will be 8,000-10,000 words. The deadline for submission is Monday 5 June, 2023. Contributions will go through double-blind peer review. Submission does not guarantee inclusion in the Thematic Issue.
International Criminology is the journal of the Division of International Criminology (ASC). It is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal publishing work on international, comparative and global criminology and criminal justice. Articles in International Criminology are engaged with and motivated by theory and draw on any of the diverse methodological approaches from the social sciences broadly construed. We welcome contact with the Thematic Issue Guest Editors prior to submission.
Are you interested in contributing to this Special Issue? Please don’t hesitate to reach out to info@victimsupporteurope.eu if you would like to discuss how to best present your practices / work with regards to victim participation in criminal justice.
Guest Editors International Criminology:
Dr. Robyn Holder, Griffith Criminology Institute, Griffith University (Australia): r.holder@griffith.edu.au
Dr Nieke Elbers, Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime & Law Enforcement, VU University (Netherlands): nelbers@nscr.nl
Dr Hildur Fjóla Antonsdottir, EDDA Research Center, University of Iceland (Iceland): hildurfa@hi.is
