ВИКТИМИЗАЦИЈА И СИРОМАШТВО: О ЖРТВАМА И ЖРТВОВАНИМА У СРБИЈИ
VICTIMISATION AND POVERTY: ABOUT VICTIMS AND VICTIMISED IN SERBIA

Summary/Abstract: This paper is a theoretical analysis of the scientific and public discourse of victimization on the example of Serbia. The analysis has two objectives: to review the justification for the use of the concept of victim defined in the traditional way - within the legal framework; and in relation to this, to offer a different view on victimization. The process of becoming a victim is recognized as a social construct, created as a result of negotiations between the (non-) formal social structure: institutions, the media, and the audience - those who stand aside, criminals and victims. In the process, some of the victims are asigned a status of justified, while others are sacrificed. There are rearely true parallels between them. Thus, unlike justified, whose suffering is percieved by public and political structures as a cause for the introduction of penal populism, the sacrificed rarely encounter any empathy.

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