Survivor Criminology

A Radical Act of Hope

Kimberly J. Cook, Jason M. Williams, Reneè D. Lamphere, Stacy L. Mallicoat, Alissa R. Ackerman

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9798881863746
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

Survivor Criminology: A Radical Act of Hope is a trauma-informed approach to the study of crime and justice that stems from the lived experiences of crime survivors. The chapters within this volume explore our authors' who have each had close personal encounters with violence and death, as well as institutionalized oppressions based on racism, heterosexism, sexism, and poverty. As scholars, professors, practitioners, and students in the field, these lived experiences with crime and criminal justice have shaped their research, teaching, and advocacy work. Their voices represent experiences that are intersectional, mult-igenerational, global, trauma-informed and resiliency focused. They are deliberately and decidedly anti-racist, and their experiences acknowledge the harm that has resulted from institutionalized and structural trauma. Most importantly, their stories are grounded in their lived experiences.
This volume offers survivor criminology as a radical act of hope. Our hope comes from the belief that a trauma-centered approach to crime, justice, and healing provides the opportunity for criminology to expand its theoretical and methodological roots. We see this work as transformative for the discipline - for students, scholars, members of the community, and policy-makers.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• ‌‌Foreword to Survivor Criminology
• ‌‌‌‌‌‌‌‌Introduction
• Balancing the Dual Roles of Sex Crimes Researcher and Rape Survivor
• No More Whispers in Secret
• I Am Not Supposed to Be Here
• From Battered Woman to Professor
• From East New York to the Ivory Tower
• Navigating Survival
• Survivor of Death by Incarceration
• Growing as an Intersectional Scholar Means Rejecting Misogynoir
• When Did Black Lives Ever Matter
• Survivor Methodology for Healing and Transformation
• Survivor Criminology as a Scholar/Activist in the Me Too Movement and #MeToo Activism
• Intersectional Biases in the Rural Courtroom
• From Trauma to Healing
• ‌‌‌‌Conclusion
• Index
• About the Editors
• About the Contributors