Crime Victims: An Introduction to Victimology
A first in the field when initially published and now a true classic, CRIME VICTIMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VICTIMOLOGY, Eighth Edition offers the most comprehensive and balanced exploration of victimology available today. The author examines the victims' plight, carefully placing 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 are currently handled by the criminal...
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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. Booknews 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 authora crime victim as well as victimologistsummarizes both sides of controversial criminal justice issues while defending use of the term "victimology." Chapters include trend graphs, discussion questions, and boxed key points (e.g. Supreme Court decisions directly affecting victims.) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
1What is victimology?12The rediscovery of crime victims253Sources of information about crime victims : the UCR and the NCVS434Violent crimes : murders and robberies605The victims' contribution to the crime problem956Victims and the criminal justice system : cooperation and conflict; part one : the police1317Victims and the criminal justice system : cooperation and conflict; part two : prosecutors, defense attorneys judges, and corrections officials1548Children as victims1799Victims of violence by lovers and family members21210Victims of rapes and other sexual assaults24111Additional groups of victims with special problems27512Repaying victims30813Victims in the twenty-first century : alternative directions340
\ BooknewsIn 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 "victimology." Chapters include trend graphs, discussion questions, and boxed key points (e.g. Supreme Court decisions directly affecting victims.) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
