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Crime Victims: An Introduction to Victimology (Contemporary Issues in Crime and Justice) - Softcover
Synopsis
A first in the field and true classic, CRIME VICTIMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VICTIMOLOGY offers the most comprehensive and balanced exploration of victimology ? a vital new and, at times, controversial branch of criminology ? available today. The author examines the victims' plight, and is careful to place statistics from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report and Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey in context. The text systematically investigates how victims' currently are handled by the criminal justice system, analyzes the goals of the victims' rights movement, and discusses what the future is likely to hold. This seventh edition expands coverage of human trafficking, crimes on campus, identity theft, stalking, motor vehicle theft, and prisoners attacked behind bars. This student-friendly textbook will serve as a valuable home-library reference book for anyone interested in criminology and criminal justice.
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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
Karmen provides a completely revised and up-to-date survey of the field of victimology, explaining how severely victims are harmed and how effectively they are being helped. With a primary focus on the victims of street crimes (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, auto and other thefts), the text covers all subjects related to crime victims: how they were overlooked and then "rediscovered"; statistics that reveal the extent of their suffering and losses; arguments which examine to what degree, if any, victims might share responsibility with offenders for crimes; how the criminal justice system treats victims; the ways victims can be reimbursed for their losses; how dispute resolution techniques like mediation can be used to settle conflicts; what new rights victims have gained through recent legislation; and how the impulse toward vigilantism might arise.
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