Readings in Victimology

A Closer Look at Crime Victimization

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2021
Cognella, Inc (Verlag)
978-1-5165-9997-4 (ISBN)

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Presents a collection of carefully selected readings that provide students with a comprehensive overview of the study of crime victimization within the context of justice, law, and society. The anthology employs a critical perspective, emphasizing the social, economic, and political contexts in which crime takes place.

Readings in Victimology: A Closer Look at Crime Victimization features a collection of carefully selected readings that provide students with a comprehensive overview of the study of crime victimization within the context of justice, law, and society. The anthology employs a critical perspective, emphasizing the social, economic, and political contexts in which crime takes place and how these factors influence the responses to crime victimization and the variety of victims of crime.

The anthology begins with a chapter that explores the historical development of the field of victimology. Additional chapters address emerging trends in criminal justice response to crime victimization, as well as the various issues and dilemmas involved in the study of the relationships among crime, criminal offending, and victimization. Victim rights, restorative justice, and recurrent patterns of behavior are covered. The text features case profiles, as well as examples of principles and theories of crime victimization from multiple perspectives.

Providing students with a valuable, research-based overview, Readings in Victimology is an ideal supplementary resource for courses in victimology studies.

Aida Y. Hass-Wisecup earned her B.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in sociology and criminal justice from George Washington University. She is an assistant professor of criminal justice at Missouri State University, where she teaches courses in criminological theory, criminal typologies, and correctional theory and practice. Her research focuses on the social organization of the modern penal institution, with focus on the impact of the changing dynamics of sentencing and corrections on the structural operation and interaction between inmates, correctional officers, and prison functions.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.09.2021
Verlagsort	San Diego
Sprache	englisch
Maße	203 x 254 mm
Gewicht	633 g
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
ISBN-10	1-5165-9997-7 / 1516599977
ISBN-13	978-1-5165-9997-4 / 9781516599974
Zustand	Neuware