The Department of Sociology, in collaboration with the CREMIS, the CICC and the CRDP, invites you to a lecture as part of the Mercredis scientifiques series organised by the Department of Sociology. Janine Barbot and Nicolas Dodier will present their latest book, Des victimes en procès. Essai sur la réparation (Paris, Presses des Mines, 2023).
Wednesday 25 September 2024, from 11.30am to 1pm.
In room C-2059 of the Carrefour des arts et des sciences Pavillon Lionel-Groulx (3150, rue Jean-Brillant) Université de Montréal.
Janine Barbot and Nicolas Dodier will present their latest book, Des victimes en procès. Essai sur la réparation (Paris, Presses des Mines, 2023). The book takes as its starting point the emergence, since the 1980s, of a deep and controversial preoccupation with the issue of victims. The growing role of victims in our societies and the focus on their suffering have given rise to intense controversy. Within the intellectual, legal and political worlds, ‘victims’ are still the subject of the most intense expectations and criticism. While examining these controversies and the players (legal professionals, journalists, academics) behind them, this book places the experience of victims at the heart of the investigations. By following the protests that followed the deaths of around a hundred children from Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease following the administration of a growth hormone treatment, it retraces over several decades the steps taken by those affected by the tragedy to obtain compensation. In addition to the case itself, it develops a general framework for understanding the contemporary issues associated with the establishment of mechanisms (compensation funds, civil or criminal proceedings, memorial events, associative support, care, etc.) designed to redress a diversity of suffering and wrongs.
This activity is organised by Nicolas SALLÉE, full professor, Department of Sociology, UdeM and Scientific Director, CREMIS.
Janine BARBOT
Nicolas DODIER
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