Victims and Victimisation : A Reader

Victimology is an important area of study in criminology as an academic subject, but is also taken seriously by governments and agencies in their assessment of criminal behaviour and their policies on crime. Victimologyaddresses questions such as: Why are certain people or groups of people victims of crime? Why do some crimes go unreported? Why do victims respond in the way that they do? What can the state do to stop certain groups becoming victims? How can victims be supported following a crime? This reader brings together some of the classic readings in criminology, dating back to the origins of victimology as a subject during the 1940s. It also includes more recent articles which examine newer issues in victimologysuch as corporate crime, state crime and religious effects and implications on the subject. The book also explores the ongoing development of policy and theories of victimology.Victims and Victimisation: A Readerbrings together, for the first time, these classic and contemporary readings in criminology. It also includes an editorial introduction to the volume and an introduction to each thematic section. It provides key reading for students of criminology, law and sociology.

Hannah Goodman Chong is Research Fellow in community justice at DMU. .

About the writers	p. ix
Publisher's acknowledgements	p. xi
Dedication and introduction	p. xiii
Series editor's introduction	p. xvii
The development of the discipline: Introduction	p. 1
The Criminal and his victim: studies in the sociobiology of crime	p. 5
Toward a theory of personal criminal victimization	p. 26
Vulnerable victims and critical responses: Introduction	p. 41
Child victims	p. 45
Violent racism: victimization, policing and social context	p. 58
Recognising and responding to victims of rural racism	p. 78
Worlds apart? Women, rape and the police reporting process	p. 93
Vulnerable victims? A current awareness of the victimisation of people with learning difficulties	p. 119
Religion, spirituality, work with, and research on, victims: Introduction	p. 131
Restorative justice in Islam: theory and practice	p. 135
Humanistic mediation: a transformative journey of peacemaking	p. 151
Corporate crime and state crime victims: Introduction	p. 163
Corporate crime kills	p. 167
Responsive regulation	p. 178
Toward a victimology of state crime	p. 194
The conceptual and theoretical basis of victimology: an introduction	p. 207
The voice of victims of crime: estimating the true level of conventional crime	p. 213
Responsibilities, rights and restorative justice	p. 225
Victim impact statements and sentencing outcomes and processes: the perspectives of legal professionals	p. 244
Fiefs and peasants: accomplishing change for victims in the criminal justice system	p. 265
Mainstream victimology: Introduction	p. 273
Promoting 'good practice' in sex trafficking cases	p. 279
Aftermath and the construction of victimisation: 'the other victims of crime'	p. 293
Routine victimisation in prisons	p. 309
Conclusion	p. 325
Bibliography	p. 329
Index	p. 359
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