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Crime Victims in Context (Paperback)
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Crime Victims in Context (Paperback)
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This is the most up-to-date and thought-provoking undergraduate
text on the controversial topic of victimology available. It
features a lively, engaging writing style.
Designed for the American college and university market, this book
is groundbreaking in its integrated approach to the study of
society's crime victims and the forces that influence their
victimization. This approach eases instruction by encouraging
students to engage in critical thinking about victims--helping
students understand how victimization relates to the social context
in which victims live.
Crime Victims in Context explores the following themes:
* Ways in which the victim role is constructed in the media, in
public discourse, and in political responses to crime. This sets
the stage for rethinking the meaning of victimization.
* Approaching victimization as a social event--the social
exchanges, or transactions, between victim and offender.
* An exploration of the aftermath of crime--examining the effects
of crime on the victim, including the physical and socio-emotional
costs of victimization.
* Responses by the criminal justice system in the adjudication of
offender guilt as well as victim support groups.
Coverage includes both sides of such controversial issues as fear
of crime, victim blaming, the "abuse excuse," white-collar
victimization, and restorative justice. The discussion of culture
and the discussion of victims and victimization as moral
stratification are innovative features of this text. There is
extensive treatment of victimization theories and a review of
data-collection procedures used in collecting information about
victimization. Numerous examples drawn from reallife and recent
research serve to illustrate points throughout the book.
Internet references are also included.
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