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Transitional Victimisation: Collaborators’ Offspring as Children at Risk
Author(s) -
Borge Baard Herman
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12328
Subject(s) - victimisation , transitional justice , norwegian , democracy , politics , german , transition (genetics) , criminology , psychology , sociology , political science , poison control , human factors and ergonomics , medicine , law , geography , environmental health , linguistics , philosophy , archaeology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
Using transition theory from political science, this paper analyses how the lives of children of Norwegians punished for collaboration with the German occupant were adversely influenced by transitional justice after the return to democracy in 1945. The paper highlights how the complexity and hectic character of such regime changes are associated with a high risk for unintended social outcomes, a risk that has received little attention in the study of transition processes. Findings indicate that in order to avoid harmful consequences for children, careful and long‐term thinking is essential when new democracies select a transitional justice strategy.