Mapping the Victimological Landscape of the Balkans. | A Regional Study of Victimology and Victim Protection with a Critical Analysis of Current Victim Policies, Research Series of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Series BC: Publications of the Max Planck Partner Group for Balkan Criminology 4. This item is unavailable.Mapping the Victimological Landscape of the Balkans. | A Regional Study of Victimology and Victim Protection with a Critical Analysis of Current Victim Policies, Research Series of the Max Planck Institute for Foreign and International Criminal Law. Series BC: Publications of the Max Planck Partner Group for Balkan Criminology 4

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.