Crime Victims: an Introduction to Victimology - Softcover

Karmen, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534515444 ISBN 13: 9780534515447

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc, 2000

Synopsis

The first and most comprehensive look at victimology, Karmen's CRIME VICTIMS offers balanced coverage of this complex and at times, controversial subject.

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Review:

"I believe that this text would work well in a victimology course taught in a social work department, especially at the undergraduate level The use of little vignettes to illustrate the text increases interest and helps develop some topics by example. It is well-documented from the point of citations All of my favorite authors were represented, and some "classics" with older dates were included, which I consider important."

Synopsis:

In this update of the mid-1990s edition, Karmen (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) adds Internet sites on crime statistics, laws, and victim services. As in the iterations since the early 1980s, the author a crime victim as well as victimologist summarizes both sides of controversial criminal justice issues while defending use of the term "vict

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0534515444
• ISBN 13: 9780534515447
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 404