01753pab a2200193 454500008004000000100001800040245006400058260000900122300001400131362000800145520119100153650001901344650001801363650001601381773002701397909001101424999001901435952010501454180718b2018   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aMehozay, Yoav  aFrom offender rehabilitation to the aesthetic of the victim  c2018  ap.97-113.  aFeb  aThis article analyzes the role played by crime victims in social control in the postindustrial United States in the last three decades of the 20th century. Through a synthesis between Zygmunt Baumanﾒs work on late modernity and Pierre Dardotﾒs and Christian Lavalﾒs conceptualization of neoliberalism, the article reviews the increasing centrality of the crime victim in penal discourse, particularly in light of the ﾑaesthetic turnﾒ proposed by Bauman and others as representing a deep transition in the way social problems and political actions are understood. More precisely, a society governed by aesthetics is concerned with superficial manifestations of social harms. As such, under this aesthetic turn, public attitudes and criminal justice policies in the United States since the 1970s have related to ideal victims who are devoid of social context. Victims play a symbolic role in amplifying punitive emotions but are denied meaningful services. The article concludes with a call to rethink the ethos of the victim with an eye toward reducing the structural pathologies, such as inequality, poverty, or racial discrimination, that inflict so much harm on so many. - R  aRehabilitation  aCrime victims  aCrime - USA  aSocial & Legal Studies  a116538  c116532d116532  00104070aIIPAbIIPAd2018-07-19hVolume no: 27, Issue no: 1pAR116998r2018-07-19w2018-07-19yAR