Routledge handbook on victims' issues in criminal justice /
This is a comprehensive and authoritative handbook on current victims' issues, with a distinctive emphasis on the delivery of suitable and effective services. The editor provides an introduction and conclusion to the handbook, synthesizing original contributions from current leaders in the fiel...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
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2017.
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Introduction to victims' rights
- Issues in victim services
- Federal victims' legislation
- Victims' assistance programs' reforms
- Victims in criminology theory
- Victims' rights legislation: comparative assessment and implementation issues
- pt. II. Victim issues regarding specific types of victimization
- Expanding the conceptualization of survivor in sexual assaults
- Intimate partner violence, neoliberal ideologies, and controversies about victimhood
- Why me : understanding cybercrime victimization
- Hate crime victimization
- Counseling families of murdered victims : a therapeutic perspective
- Members of the LGBT community as victims of crime
- pt. III. Victim services
- Enhancing service provider systems
- Special needs of elderly victims
- Factors surrounding providers' views of Latina immigrant victims
- Victim impact statements : understanding and improving their use
- Victims' needs and restorative justice
- Helping assault victims
- Victim witnesses in investigative interviews and court processes
- pt. IV. Victim service organizations
- History of the World Society of Victimology
- Victimology and victims' service organizations
- Victims and the media.
