Antony Pemberton
Biographic Data
| ID | 4469085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antony Pemberton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antony |
| FAMILY NAME | Pemberton |
| SIGNATURE | PEMBERTON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1086-5142 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Cinematic victimology as phenomenology
This paper develops a theoretical framework for cinematic victimology as phenomenology. We argue that cinematic fiction can offer insight into the experience of victimisation that is difficult to access through standard victimological methods, given the double hermeneutic that shapes both the telling and the interpretation of victim experience. Drawing on McGregor’s tripartite framework for the criminological value of narrative fiction, we conten…
Negotiating meaning in a narrative world
Public concern about drink spiking has grown in Belgium and internationally, yet its prevalence and impact remain difficult to establish. The covert nature of the act and memory-impairing substances often leave victims with fragmented recollections and little evidence, creating profound uncertainty. This study examines how women navigate this ambiguity and construct meaning after suspected drink spiking, drawing on narrative and meaning-making th…
The Help-Seeking Behavior of Victims of Image-Based Sexual Harassment and Abuse
Image-based sexual harassment and abuse (IBSHA) has recently gained scientific attention. To date, research has primarily focused on victim characteristics and impact, while little specific empirical research exists on victims’ help-seeking behavior, including barriers and facilitators to seeking support. The aim of this scoping review was to examine the current state of literature on IBSHA victims’ help-seeking behavior and barriers and facilita…
Victim impact statements in the courtroom
The Victim Impact Statement (VIS) has transformed victims’ interactions with the criminal justice system. Victims have been given a voice through which they can tell their story and share their victimisation experience. These autobiographical narratives could furthermore instigate reciprocal communication between victims and legal professionals. The communicative value of victim participation has the potential to restore victims’ agency and commu…
Crossing borders
On 17 July 2014, Flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine. This paper analyzes the public response to MH17 and its legal aftermath, focusing on the victimological elements in this process, connecting this to broader features of the victimology of international crimes, and highlighting the distinction between doing justice and countering injustice. The victimological elements in the criminal proceedings against four Russia-backed commanders and…
Framing the relationship
The influence of network orchestration and organizational formalization on goal orientation in public service delivery networks
Prior research on networks has established that tensions might arise between organizational structures and processes and network goals. This study investigates the role that network managers can play in mitigating these tensions through network orchestration. Based on an experimental design involving students and practitioners from the social domain, the combined effects of network orchestration and organizational formalization on goal orientatio…
Victimization as transformative experience
Dominant approaches to victimization define it in terms of (psychological) suffering and norm transgression. A critical approach endorses more-inclusive examinations of harm and turns to victims to hear and learn from their experiences. In this article, we illustrate how a phenomenological approach contributes to this endeavour and can illuminate often neglected aspects of victimization. We engage in a close reading of Susan Brison's Aftermath an…
The Key Characteristics and Role of Peer Support in the Aftermath of Victimization
TOPIC: Currently, research into the key elements and role of peer support in the aftermath of victimization is limited. This study reviews the types of evidence available, clarifying key concepts in the literature, examining how research is conducted and identifying key characteristics or factors related to peer support in the aftermath of a victimization experience. METHOD: A scoping review was performed for peer-reviewed papers using predefined…
Bringing injustice back in
Secondary victimization is a key concept in research into the experiences of victims of crime, related policies and legislation, and practices of support and care. However, the current conceptualization of secondary victimization suffers from a number of shortcomings. These include conceptual confusion, such that negative but varied emotional and psychological experiences are lumped together. Moreover, the current conceptualization of secondary v…
Patients at the centre after a health care incident
The Feminizing Effect of Sexual Violence in Third-Party Perceptions of Male and Female Victims
Various scholars have noted that the label “victim” frequently elicits connotations of stereotypical, passive femininity—especially when the crime entails rape or other forms of sexual violence. In three online experimental studies, British respondents were recruited to test whether written information about a sexual assault led observers to perceive the victim as more feminine in terms of character traits and facial appearance. Study 1 (n = 139)…
Revisiting the ‘Ideal Victim’
Revisiting the “Ideal Victim”
Revisiting the ‘Ideal Victim’ is a collection of academic responses to the late Nils Christie’s (1986) seminal piece on the ‘ideal victim’ in which he addressed the socially constructed concept of an idealised form of victim status or identity. Highlighting the complex factors informing the application or rejection of victim status, Christie foregrounded the role of subjective and objective perspectives on personal and societal responses to victi…
Stories as property
This article offers a novel approach to the difficulties experienced by victims in relation to their social surroundings in general, and to justice processes in particular, by expanding on an emerging paradigm of narrative victimology. For victims, ownership of their narrative is a key element of their experience, but this ownership is contested. The article brings together a body of victimological literature drawn from social and personality psy…
The Narrative of Victimization and Deradicalization
While the study of victimology and radicalization mainly focuses on those who suffered from terrorist attacks, this article explores the role of victimological processes in deradicalization. Experts from different international deradicalization initiatives were interviewed. Using the narrative framework with its three key concepts—identity, emotion, and culture—as set forth by Pemberton and Aarten in this issue, the relationship between victimiza…
Narrative in the Study of Victimological Processes in Terrorism and Political Violence
Narrative is intimately connected to victimization and radicalization. Trouble, the notion that drives narrative, is often coupled with victimization: the experience of suffering intentional harm. This experience can play a turning point in the stories that radicals construct about their own lives and thus play a role in their pathway to radicalization. In this article, three main themes of narrative will be further explored in relation to victim…
Coherence in International Criminal Justice
This article develops a victimological perspective on international criminal justice, based on a review of the main victimological characteristics of international crimes: the complicity of government agencies, the large numbers of victims involved and the peculiar position of victims of international crimes, who at the time of the commission of the crimes are viewed as perpetrators and/or beyond the moral sphere, rather than as victims. Key elem…
Observers’ reactions to victim impact statements
Previous research has shown that expectancy violations can have both affective and cognitive consequences. In particular, recent victimological research argues that people’s perceptions and judgments of victims are negatively influenced when their expectations of the victim’s emotional behavior are violated. That is, expectancy violation may lead to secondary victimization: victims may be judged to be less credible, suffer higher levels of victim…
Justice for victims
General introduction, Felix Mukwiza Ndahinda, Antony Pemberton and Inge Vanfraechem Part 1. Victims' rights 1. Victims' rights, Paul Rock 2. Respecting victims of crime: Key distinctions in a theory of victims' rights, Antony Pemberton 3. Recognition of victims' rights through EU Action: Latest developments and challenges, Helga Ezendam & Frida Wheldon 4. Implementing victim rights in Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs): Reflections on major ch…
Justice for Victims
Justice for Victims brings together the world’s leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimization in a pioneering international collection. This book focuses on the current study of victims of crime, combining both legal and social-scientific perspectives, articulating both in new directions and questioning whether victims really do have more rights in our modern world. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach, covering larg…
Victims justice preferences in a collectivist, informal setting
Assisting Victims of Terrorism
The EU Framework Decision for Victims of Crime
www.brill.nl/eccl © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/157181709X400386 The EU Framework Decision for Victims of Crime: Does Hard Law Make a Difference? M.S. Groenhuijsen and A. Pemberton International Victimology Institute, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 1. Introduction On the 15th of March 2001 the European Union Framework Decision on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings was adopted. 1 This event is a milestone in m…
Stories as property
This article offers a novel approach to the difficulties experienced by victims in relation to their social surroundings in general, and to justice processes in particular, by expanding on an emerging paradigm of narrative victimology. For victims, ownership of their narrative is a key element of their experience, but this ownership is contested. The article brings together a body of victimological literature drawn from social and personality psy…
Narrative in the Study of Victimological Processes in Terrorism and Political Violence
Narrative is intimately connected to victimization and radicalization. Trouble, the notion that drives narrative, is often coupled with victimization: the experience of suffering intentional harm. This experience can play a turning point in the stories that radicals construct about their own lives and thus play a role in their pathway to radicalization. In this article, three main themes of narrative will be further explored in relation to victim…
The Feminizing Effect of Sexual Violence in Third-Party Perceptions of Male and Female Victims
Various scholars have noted that the label “victim” frequently elicits connotations of stereotypical, passive femininity—especially when the crime entails rape or other forms of sexual violence. In three online experimental studies, British respondents were recruited to test whether written information about a sexual assault led observers to perceive the victim as more feminine in terms of character traits and facial appearance. Study 1 (n = 139)…
The EU Framework Decision for Victims of Crime
www.brill.nl/eccl © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/157181709X400386 The EU Framework Decision for Victims of Crime: Does Hard Law Make a Difference? M.S. Groenhuijsen and A. Pemberton International Victimology Institute, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 1. Introduction On the 15th of March 2001 the European Union Framework Decision on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings was adopted. 1 This event is a milestone in m…
Victimization as transformative experience
Dominant approaches to victimization define it in terms of (psychological) suffering and norm transgression. A critical approach endorses more-inclusive examinations of harm and turns to victims to hear and learn from their experiences. In this article, we illustrate how a phenomenological approach contributes to this endeavour and can illuminate often neglected aspects of victimization. We engage in a close reading of Susan Brison's Aftermath an…
Bringing injustice back in
Secondary victimization is a key concept in research into the experiences of victims of crime, related policies and legislation, and practices of support and care. However, the current conceptualization of secondary victimization suffers from a number of shortcomings. These include conceptual confusion, such that negative but varied emotional and psychological experiences are lumped together. Moreover, the current conceptualization of secondary v…
Coherence in International Criminal Justice
This article develops a victimological perspective on international criminal justice, based on a review of the main victimological characteristics of international crimes: the complicity of government agencies, the large numbers of victims involved and the peculiar position of victims of international crimes, who at the time of the commission of the crimes are viewed as perpetrators and/or beyond the moral sphere, rather than as victims. Key elem…
Observers’ reactions to victim impact statements
Previous research has shown that expectancy violations can have both affective and cognitive consequences. In particular, recent victimological research argues that people’s perceptions and judgments of victims are negatively influenced when their expectations of the victim’s emotional behavior are violated. That is, expectancy violation may lead to secondary victimization: victims may be judged to be less credible, suffer higher levels of victim…
The EU Framework Decision for Victims of Crime
www.brill.nl/eccl © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2009 DOI: 10.1163/157181709X400386 The EU Framework Decision for Victims of Crime: Does Hard Law Make a Difference? M.S. Groenhuijsen and A. Pemberton International Victimology Institute, Tilburg University, The Netherlands 1. Introduction On the 15th of March 2001 the European Union Framework Decision on the standing of victims in criminal proceedings was adopted. 1 This event is a milestone in m…
Assisting Victims of Terrorism
Victims justice preferences in a collectivist, informal setting
Justice for victims
General introduction, Felix Mukwiza Ndahinda, Antony Pemberton and Inge Vanfraechem Part 1. Victims' rights 1. Victims' rights, Paul Rock 2. Respecting victims of crime: Key distinctions in a theory of victims' rights, Antony Pemberton 3. Recognition of victims' rights through EU Action: Latest developments and challenges, Helga Ezendam & Frida Wheldon 4. Implementing victim rights in Newly Industrialized Countries (NICs): Reflections on major ch…
Justice for Victims
Justice for Victims brings together the world’s leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimization in a pioneering international collection. This book focuses on the current study of victims of crime, combining both legal and social-scientific perspectives, articulating both in new directions and questioning whether victims really do have more rights in our modern world. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach, covering larg…
Coherence in International Criminal Justice
This article develops a victimological perspective on international criminal justice, based on a review of the main victimological characteristics of international crimes: the complicity of government agencies, the large numbers of victims involved and the peculiar position of victims of international crimes, who at the time of the commission of the crimes are viewed as perpetrators and/or beyond the moral sphere, rather than as victims. Key elem…
Observers’ reactions to victim impact statements
Previous research has shown that expectancy violations can have both affective and cognitive consequences. In particular, recent victimological research argues that people’s perceptions and judgments of victims are negatively influenced when their expectations of the victim’s emotional behavior are violated. That is, expectancy violation may lead to secondary victimization: victims may be judged to be less credible, suffer higher levels of victim…
The Narrative of Victimization and Deradicalization
While the study of victimology and radicalization mainly focuses on those who suffered from terrorist attacks, this article explores the role of victimological processes in deradicalization. Experts from different international deradicalization initiatives were interviewed. Using the narrative framework with its three key concepts—identity, emotion, and culture—as set forth by Pemberton and Aarten in this issue, the relationship between victimiza…
Narrative in the Study of Victimological Processes in Terrorism and Political Violence
Narrative is intimately connected to victimization and radicalization. Trouble, the notion that drives narrative, is often coupled with victimization: the experience of suffering intentional harm. This experience can play a turning point in the stories that radicals construct about their own lives and thus play a role in their pathway to radicalization. In this article, three main themes of narrative will be further explored in relation to victim…
Revisiting the ‘Ideal Victim’
Revisiting the “Ideal Victim”
Revisiting the ‘Ideal Victim’ is a collection of academic responses to the late Nils Christie’s (1986) seminal piece on the ‘ideal victim’ in which he addressed the socially constructed concept of an idealised form of victim status or identity. Highlighting the complex factors informing the application or rejection of victim status, Christie foregrounded the role of subjective and objective perspectives on personal and societal responses to victi…
Stories as property
This article offers a novel approach to the difficulties experienced by victims in relation to their social surroundings in general, and to justice processes in particular, by expanding on an emerging paradigm of narrative victimology. For victims, ownership of their narrative is a key element of their experience, but this ownership is contested. The article brings together a body of victimological literature drawn from social and personality psy…
The Feminizing Effect of Sexual Violence in Third-Party Perceptions of Male and Female Victims
Various scholars have noted that the label “victim” frequently elicits connotations of stereotypical, passive femininity—especially when the crime entails rape or other forms of sexual violence. In three online experimental studies, British respondents were recruited to test whether written information about a sexual assault led observers to perceive the victim as more feminine in terms of character traits and facial appearance. Study 1 (n = 139)…
Patients at the centre after a health care incident
The Key Characteristics and Role of Peer Support in the Aftermath of Victimization
TOPIC: Currently, research into the key elements and role of peer support in the aftermath of victimization is limited. This study reviews the types of evidence available, clarifying key concepts in the literature, examining how research is conducted and identifying key characteristics or factors related to peer support in the aftermath of a victimization experience. METHOD: A scoping review was performed for peer-reviewed papers using predefined…
Bringing injustice back in
Secondary victimization is a key concept in research into the experiences of victims of crime, related policies and legislation, and practices of support and care. However, the current conceptualization of secondary victimization suffers from a number of shortcomings. These include conceptual confusion, such that negative but varied emotional and psychological experiences are lumped together. Moreover, the current conceptualization of secondary v…
Framing the relationship
The influence of network orchestration and organizational formalization on goal orientation in public service delivery networks
Prior research on networks has established that tensions might arise between organizational structures and processes and network goals. This study investigates the role that network managers can play in mitigating these tensions through network orchestration. Based on an experimental design involving students and practitioners from the social domain, the combined effects of network orchestration and organizational formalization on goal orientatio…
Victimization as transformative experience
Dominant approaches to victimization define it in terms of (psychological) suffering and norm transgression. A critical approach endorses more-inclusive examinations of harm and turns to victims to hear and learn from their experiences. In this article, we illustrate how a phenomenological approach contributes to this endeavour and can illuminate often neglected aspects of victimization. We engage in a close reading of Susan Brison's Aftermath an…
The Help-Seeking Behavior of Victims of Image-Based Sexual Harassment and Abuse
Image-based sexual harassment and abuse (IBSHA) has recently gained scientific attention. To date, research has primarily focused on victim characteristics and impact, while little specific empirical research exists on victims’ help-seeking behavior, including barriers and facilitators to seeking support. The aim of this scoping review was to examine the current state of literature on IBSHA victims’ help-seeking behavior and barriers and facilita…
Victim impact statements in the courtroom
The Victim Impact Statement (VIS) has transformed victims’ interactions with the criminal justice system. Victims have been given a voice through which they can tell their story and share their victimisation experience. These autobiographical narratives could furthermore instigate reciprocal communication between victims and legal professionals. The communicative value of victim participation has the potential to restore victims’ agency and commu…
Crossing borders
On 17 July 2014, Flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine. This paper analyzes the public response to MH17 and its legal aftermath, focusing on the victimological elements in this process, connecting this to broader features of the victimology of international crimes, and highlighting the distinction between doing justice and countering injustice. The victimological elements in the criminal proceedings against four Russia-backed commanders and…
Cinematic victimology as phenomenology
This paper develops a theoretical framework for cinematic victimology as phenomenology. We argue that cinematic fiction can offer insight into the experience of victimisation that is difficult to access through standard victimological methods, given the double hermeneutic that shapes both the telling and the interpretation of victim experience. Drawing on McGregor’s tripartite framework for the criminological value of narrative fiction, we conten…
Negotiating meaning in a narrative world
Public concern about drink spiking has grown in Belgium and internationally, yet its prevalence and impact remain difficult to establish. The covert nature of the act and memory-impairing substances often leave victims with fragmented recollections and little evidence, creating profound uncertainty. This study examines how women navigate this ambiguity and construct meaning after suspected drink spiking, drawing on narrative and meaning-making th…
Political science (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Criminology (12 works) · Law (11 works) · Social Psychology (10 works) · Economic Justice (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (6 works) · Social Psychology (6 works)