ABSTRACT
While some crimes are typically described as victimless, most criminal activity has its greatest direct impact on the victim. However, both traditional criminology and traditional crime fiction have tended to ignore the experiences of the victims of crime in favour of either the criminal and his or her criminal behaviour, or the investigative processes that lead to the criminal’s capture. This chapter links victimology, or victim-centred criminological theories, and forms of crime fiction that make the experience of crime central to their aesthetic and moral impact.
