Description
The Routledge Handbook on Victims’ Issues in Criminal Justice is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services. The editor provides an introduction and conclusion to the handbook, synthesizing original contributions from current leaders in the field, surveying victims’ rights in the United States, victim participation in the criminal justice system, victims’ welfare and needs, and most notably the services that have been developed in response. A section on special populations in the United States brings focus to current and emerging issues faced within the country, while a section covering international and transnational victimization explores globalization and the implications of other legal traditions and systems.
This handbook addresses the crucial and complex topic of victims’ issues, examining both societal and governmental reactions to victims’ concerns and acquainting readers with the issues that discord may cause, and how they affect the provision of services. This book will serve as an essential reference for academics and practitioners working with crime victims, as well as for students taking courses in victimology, criminology, sociology, and related subjects.
Table of Contents
Preface
Foreword
PART 1: INTRODUCTION TO VICTIMS’ RIGHTS
Chapter 1: Issues in Victim Services
Heather Zaykowski
Chapter 2: Federal Victims’ Legislation
Maren Trochmann, Angela R. Gover, and Maria J. Patterson
Chapter 3: Victims’ Assistance Programs’ Reforms
Bethany A. Poff and Catherine D. Marcum
Chapter 4: Victims in Criminology Theory
Tusty ten Bensel and Dana L. Radatz
Chapter 5: Victims’ Rights Legislation: Comparative Assessment and Implementation Issues
Francis D. Boateng
PART II: VICTIM ISSUES REGARDING SPECIFIC TYPES OF VICTIMIZATION
Chapter 6: Expanding the Conceptualization of Survivor in Sexual Assaults
Shelly Clevenger and Jordana N. Navarro
Chapter 7: Intimate Partner Violence, Neoliberal Ideologies, and Controversies about Victimhood
Jennifer Katz and Hillary Rich
Chapter 8: Why Me: Understanding Cybercrime Victimization
Jordana N. Navarro and Shelly Clevenger
Chapter 9: Hate Crime Victimization
Kevin Wong and Kris Christmann
Chapter 10: Counseling Families of Murdered Victims: A Therapeutic Perspective
Nana A. Serwaa Adjekum-Boateng and Francis D. Boateng
Chapter 11: Members of the LGBT Community as Victims of Crime
David P. Weiss
PART III: VICTIM SERVICES
Chapter 12: Enhancing Service Provider Systems
Jed Metzger
Chapter 13: Special Needs of Elderly Victims
Yoshiko Takahashi
Chapter 14: Providers’ and Latina Immigrants’ Views of Anti-Domestic Violence Services in the Midwest
Angelica S. Reina and Cecilia Menjívar
Chapter 15: Victim Impact Statements: Understanding and Improving Their Use
Chadley James
Chapter 16: Victims’ Needs and Restorative Justice
Andrew S. Gladfelter and R. Barry Ruback
Chapter 17: Helping Sexual Assault Victims
Suzanne Overstreet, Susan McNeeley, Kathryn Elvey, and Whitney Gass
Chapter 18: Victim Witnesses in Investigative Interviews and Court Processes
Jacqueline M. Wheatcroft
PART IV: VICTIM SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS
Chapter 19: History of the World Society of Victimology
John P. J. Dussich
Chapter 20: Victimology and Victims’ Service Organizations
Cliff Roberson
Chapter 21: Victims and the Media
Annette Van de Merwe
