Main description:

This book covers the scope of crime victims' suffering in the U.S., offering a history of victims and the measurement of victimization, an explanation of the victim's role in the criminal justice process, and a recounting of the issues crime victims face as a result of crime and the criminal justice process. Doerner and Lab, both well-regarded scholars, write compellingly about how the current criminal's justice system can be transformed into a victim's justice system. Theory is woven together with the description of each topic, and specific examples illustrate each point. The book goes on to address the full impact of victimization, and a final section details specific types of victimization, ranging from violent crimes, including child and elder abuse, to property crime, to crime in the school and in the workplace. The authors explain how obstacles hinder the pursuit of justice, and provide significant policy and programming suggestions to render the system more victim-friendly.

Appropriate for undergraduate as well as early graduate students in Victimology courses in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Justice Studies programs, this book offers rich pedagogical features and online student resources as well as test bank, PowerPoint lecture slides, and sample syllabus for instructors.

Contents:

SECTION 1: DEFINITION AND SCOPE

Chapter 1: The Scope of Victimology

Chapter 2: Measuring Criminal Victimization

SECTION 2: ADDRESSING THE IMPACT OF VICTIMIZATION

Chapter 3: The Costs of Victimization

Chapter 4: Remedying the Impact of Victimization

Chapter 5: Restorative Justice

Chapter 6: Victim Rights

SECTION 3: TYPES OF VICTIMIZATION

Chapter 7: Traditional Crimes

Chapter 8: Sexual Battery

Chapter 9: Intimate Partner Violence

Chapter 10: Child Maltreatment

Chapter 11: Crime and the Elderly

Chapter 12: Hate Crime Victimization

Chapter 13: Victimization at School

Chapter 14: Victimization at Work