Trends and issues in victimology /

Trends and issues in victimology /

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Imprint:Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008.
Description:1 online resource (xv, 338 pages)
Language:English
Subject:
Victims of crimes.
Victims of crimes.
Crime Victims.
Electronic books.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11174722
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Other authors / contributors:Ronel, Natti.
Jaishankar, K.
Bensimon, Moshe.
ISBN:9781443814539
1443814539
9781443800693
1443800694
1282413805
9781282413801
9786612413803
6612413808
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:This book focuses on varied practical and theoretical issues of the science of victims, Victimology. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by leading victimologists, and fifteen original essays by leading as well as by young international victimologists, Tren.
Other form:Print version: Trends and issues in victimology. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008 9781443800693
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Gerd F. Kirchhoff
  • Editors' introduction
  • Between perception and victimization : trends and issues in victimology / Natti Ronel, K. Jaishankar & Moshe Bensimon
  • pt. I. Justice for victims
  • Ideology and the behavior of perpetrators and victims of violence / Noach (Norman) Milgram
  • An informal approach to delinquents and their victims : an alternative to standard punishment / Uri Timor
  • Family-group conferencing in Israel : the voices of victims following restorative justice proceedings / Esther Schachaf-Friedman & Uri Timor
  • Restitution : a multilateral penal approach / Sharon Aharoni-Goldenberg and Yael Wilchek-Aviad
  • Malimath Committee and crime victims : resurrecting the forgotten voices of the Indian criminal justice system / K. Jaishankar, P. Madhava Soma Sundaram & Debarati Halder
  • pt. II. Issues of sexual victimization
  • Reclaiming power? Women victims of sexual violence and the civil legal system / Yifat Bitton
  • Sexual assault victims : empowerment of re-victimization? The need for a therapeutic jurisprudence model / Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg
  • Blaming victims and bystanders in the context of rape / Inna Levy & Sarah Ben-David
  • Victims of sexual harassment in modern work places in India / P. Madhava Soma Sundaram, K. Jaishankar & Megha Desai
  • The relationship betwen childhood victimization, drug abuse and PTSD and adult delinquency in a prison population / Sarah Ben-David & Ili Goldberg
  • Illustratied examples of victimization
  • Alienation and emotional distress among relocated youth following the Gaza disengagement / Avital Laufer & Mally Shechory
  • Criminal victimization and social networks in India / Nandini Rai
  • Soldier suicides : a victimological perspective / Ehud Bodner
  • A survey of stalking victims in India / K. Jaishankar, Megha Desai & P. Madhava Soma Sundaram
  • Abused Druze women's strategies of resistance / Brenda Geiger
  • Epilogue / Leslie Sebba
  • Scientific committee of reviewers
  • About the editors
  • About the authors
  • Subject index.

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