The politics of victimization : victims, victimology, and human rights /
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| Author / Creator: | Elias, Robert, 1950- |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 1986. |
| Description: | xiii, 395 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/723495 |
| Summary: | This useful text provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the study of victims and victimization. Victimization is here considered as a reflection of American society. Taking a broad perspective, Elias argues that the study of victimology requires more than merely analyzing criminal justice; it requires linking it to much wider social, political and economic relations--especially to the American political economy. This study rejects the official definition of crime and victimization and establishes a relationship between victimology and human rights, thus advocating a "new" victimology which embraces victims of both crime and repression. Elias proposes that since much crime arises in response to various forms of oppression, a society unconcerned with human rights violations and its victims can likewise provide little help for crime victims. |
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| Item Description: | Includes indexes. |
| Physical Description: | xiii, 395 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Bibliography: p. [246]-372. |
| ISBN: | 0195039807 (alk. paper) 0195039815 (pbk. : alk. paper) |