Full Description
The Victims of Crime provides indispensable information on all aspects of crime victimization, victims' rights, and victims' services. Organized in an easy-to-follow, four-part format, it provides a look at important events in the field, up-to-date statistical victimization data, and a theoretical understanding of how and why individuals become victims of crime. Taking a systems approach, it devotes extensive coverage to the crime victim's interaction with the criminal justice system and includes an entire chapter on economic victimizations.
Contents
SECTION I2. Crime Victimization: Statistics, Theories, and Victimology3. Crime PreventionSECTION II: CRIME VICTIMS AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM4. Crime Victims and Law Enforcement5. Crime Victims and the Courts6. Crime Victims, Corrections, and Restorative JusticeSECTION III: INTERPERSONAL VICTIMIZATION7. Sexual Victimization8. Intimate Partner Violence9. Children as Victims10. Victimization of the ElderlySECTION IV: STRANGER VICTIMIZATION11. Economic Victimizations12. Hate Crimes and Special Populations13. Mass Violence14. International Victimization, Assistance and the Future of the Victims of Crime
