Crime Victims An Introduction to Victimology

Name: Crime Victims An Introduction to Victimology
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ISBN: 9780495599296

ISBN-10: 0495599298

ISBN-13: 9780495599296

Edition: 7th 2010

Authors: Andrew Karmen

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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,…

Book details

List price: $158.95
Edition: 7th
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Wadsworth
Publication date: 3/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Andrew Karmen is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York and author of Crime Victims: An Introduction to Victimology .




What is Victimology?



The Rediscovery of Crime Victims



Sources of information About Crime Victims: The UCR and the NCVS



Violent Crimes: Murders and Robberies



The Victims' Contribution to the Crime Problem



Victims and the Criminal Justice System: Cooperation and Conflict with the Police



Victims and the Criminal Justice System: Cooperation and Conflict with Prosecutors, Judges and Corrections Officials



Children as Victims



Victims of Violence by Lovers and Family Members



Victims of Rapes and Other Sexual Assaults



Additional Groups of Victims with Special Problems



Repaying Victims



Victims in the Twenty-First Century: Alternative Directions