To be a victim : encounters with crime and injustice /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Plenum Press,
[1991]
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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.