Table of Contents:
  • Why the concern for victims?
  • Survivors of crime
  • Thoughts about victims of crime and injustice and the nature of justice
  • Concept of victimhood
  • Victim compensation
  • Street-crime victim compensation, retributive justice, and social-contract theory
  • Rescuing victims-from social theory
  • Systems science approach to crime, criminal justice, and victim justice
  • African-Americans, crime victimization, and political obligations
  • Rights of child abuse victims
  • Victimology and blaming the victim : the case of rape
  • Victims in seventeenth-century witchcraft trials
  • Perpetrators of violent crime as potential victims of research in prison
  • Computer crime and victim justice
  • Patient-nurse and nurse-patient abuse.
  • Justice for health consumers and providers
  • Victims of genocide
  • Weapons control laws
  • Behind barbed wire : the wartime incarceration of the Japanese-Americans
  • Law and morality of war crimes trials
  • Victims and arms in classical legal philosophy
  • Is gun control legislation a solution for protecting victims?
  • Why retributivists should care about deterrence
  • Controversy over shared responsibility
  • Preferring punishment of criminals over providing for victims
  • What hope for victims? The need for new approaches and for new priorities.