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| Description |
Victimology is an important area of study in criminology as an academic subject, but is also taken seriously by governments and agencies in their assessment of criminal behaviour and their policies on crime. Victimology looks at why people or groups of people are victims of crime, why some crimes go unreported, why victims respond in the way that they do, what the state can do to stop certain groups becoming victims and how victims can be looked after post the event. This Reader brings together some of the classic readings in criminology, dating back to the origins of victimology as a subject. It will then include more recent texts which will map out policies, religious effects and implications, corporate and state crime and concepts around the theory of victimology (a section suggested by the readers). As with other Readers the book will have an editorial introduction to the volume and an introduction to each thematic section. |
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| Table of Contents |
Section one (historical) Victims of Personal Crime: An empirical foundation for a theory of personal victimization `Une Nouvelle Branche de la Science Bio-psych-sociale: La Victimologie? The Criminal and His Victim: Studies in the sociobiology of crime Section two (vulnerable victims and critical responses) `Child victims? Violent Racism: Victimization, policing and social context `Recognising and responding to victims of rural racism? `Getting the message? `New? Labour and the criminalization of `hate?? `Women, rape and the police reporting process? `Victims? voices: domestic assault victims? perceptions of police demeanor? `Vulnerable victims? A current awareness of the victimisation of people with learning difficulties? Section three (religious/spiritual) `Restorative justice in Islam: theory and practice? `God?s way: Biblical justice? `Humanistic mediation: a transformative journey of peacemaking? Section four (corporate and state crime victims) Power, Crime, and Mystification, Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation `?Ere their story die?: truth, justice and reconciliation in South Africa? `Toward a victimology of state crime? Section five (theoretical and conceptual) `The Voice of Victims of Crime: Estimating the True Level of Conventional Crime? `Responsibilities, Rights and Restorative Justice?, `Conflicts as property? `Paradigms and Paradoxes of Victimology? `Victim Impact Statements and Sentencing Outcomes and Processes? `Fiefs and peasants: accomplishing change for victims in the criminal justice system? Section six (mainstream victimology) `Promoting ?good practice? in sex trafficking cases? `Aftermath and the Construction of Victimisation: `The Other Victims of Crime?? `Routine victimisation in prisons? `Crime Victimization: Its Extent and Communication? |
