ABSTRACT
As Walklate and Spencer have argued, tracing the victim story is neither easy nor straightforward. Yet despite being in the shadows of criminology, victimology has never been as exclusionary as criminology, having at its core suffering and as an area of concern was borne out of pre-occupations with war, genocide and crimes against the environment. The word critical has been used in a range of different ways within victimology. Documenting the journey to victimhood and/or resistance to victimhood is not only an interesting intellectual endeavour that might fill the lacuna commented on by Rock, it is also important politically. Neither should the achievements of the past be overlooked in terms of a conceptual agenda for victimology. There is still much to be done in and around atrocity crimes, there is still much to be done in and around the emergent concerns a green victimology.
