Victimizing vulnerable groups : images of uniquely high-risk crime targets /
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| Imprint: | Westport, CT : Praeger, 2004. |
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| Description: | xvii, 387 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Praeger series in criminology and crime control policy, 1060-3212 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5537068 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Multipli-Disadvantaged Groups
- 1. Fear of Crime among Vulnerable Populations: Homeless Women
- 2. Worries about Crime: Rank-Ordering Survival Concerns among Urban Transient Females
- 3. Personal and Situational Characteristics of Custodial African-American Grandmothers
- 4. Race and Crime: Vulnerability at the Margins
- 5. The Persecution and Ill-Treatment of African Americans in the Health-Care System in the United States
- 6. Exploiting the Aged in Familial Settings
- 7. Fear of Crime: Its Meaning in the Lives of Elderly Women
- 8. Where Are You Now, Cesar Chavez?: The Unique Vulnerabilities and Victimization Experiences of Mexican Immigrants in the United States
- Part 2. The Undeserving Vulnerable
- 9. Intersecting Identities and Pregnant Drug-Users: Victimization and Vulnerabilities to Criminalization
- 10. Disregarding Harm: An Examination of the Vulnerabilities of Youth Incarcerated in Adult Correctional Facilities
- 11. Prostitutes as Prey: Empirical Support for the Lifestyle/Exposure Model as an Explanation of Personal Victimization and Worries about Crime
- 12. AIDS, Violence, and Matters of Respect: Family and Peer Relations of African-American and Latino Convicted Felons
- Part 3. The Uniquely, Uniquely Vulnerable
- 13. Worries about Crime among Foreign Students Studying in the United States: A Comparative Study
- 14. Victims in Underdeveloped Countries
- 15. Low Crime Rates in Bahrain: Islamic Social Control--Testing the Theory of "Synnomie"
- 16. Teacher, Actor, Candlestick Maker: Victims All Looking at Government-Sanctioned Victimization of Its Citizenry
- 17. Nonhuman Animals as Victims: Victimology and the Animal-Rights Movement
- 18. The Exploitation, Victimization, and Unique Vulnerabilities of Native Americans
- 19. Removal of the Southwest Michigan Potawatomi: Government Crimes of Oppression and Cultural Genocide
- 20. Victimization of Women: A Theoretical Perspective on Dowry Deaths in India
- 21. Sexual Victimization by Airport Screeners, Post-9/11: Terrorism, Sexism, and Capitalism at Work
- Part 4. The Differentially Vulnerable
- 22. Social Distance and Vulnerability: The Case of Sexual Orientation
- 23. The Perilous Existence of Children as Freaks in Circuses, Carnivals, and Freak Shows
- 24. Discredited Victims of Childhood Violence
- 25. Anti-Abortion Stalkers
- Index
- About the Editor and Contributors
