Crime Victims: An Introduction to Victimology / Edition 9

by Andrew Karmen

Overview

Learn about victimology from a true classic text in the field. CRIME VICTIMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VICTIMOLOGY, Ninth Edition offers the most comprehensive and balanced exploration of victimology available today. The author examines the victims' plight, carefully placing statistics from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report and Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey in context. At the same time, he "humanizes" victims' stories through compelling case studies. The text systematically investigates how victims are currently handled by the criminal justice system, analyzes the goals of the victims' rights movement, and discusses what the future is likely to hold. In this up-to-date edition, you'll read about the practical issues facing victims and learn about "survivorology" and "bystanderology." You'll also gain insight into the seriousness of intimate partner violence, child abuse, sexual assaults in the U.S. military, acquaintance rapes on college campuses, shootings on campuses, whether arming for self-protection is an effective strategy, and other high-profile issues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781305261037
Publisher:	Cengage Learning
Publication date:	04/28/2015
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	7.30(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Andrew Karmen has been a professor in the Sociology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice since 1978. He has taught courses on a wide range of subjects including general sociology, criminal justice, criminology, crime and justice in New York City, drug abuse, delinquency, social problems, race relations, research methods, statistics, and victimology. He has previously served as the coordinator of both the criminology and criminal justice undergraduate majors, the co-director of the master's program in criminal justice, and as a member of the doctoral faculty. Dr. Karmen has written journal articles and chapters in books on a number of subjects, including drug abuse, police use of deadly force, auto theft, providing defense attorneys to indigents, victims' rights, the victimization of women, and predictions about the plight of crime victims in the future. His investigation of why crime rates rise and fall, NEW YORK MURDER MYSTERY: THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CRIME CRASH OF THE 1990s, (NYU Press, paperback edition 2006) unearths statistical evidence that casts doubt on most of the widely held beliefs about the reasons for the dramatic improvement in public safety in New York City. In 2012, Dr. Karmen was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the World Society Of Victimology.

Table of Contents

1. What Is Victimology? 2. The Rediscovery of Crime Victims. 3. Victimization in the United States: An Overview. 4. Violent Crimes: Murders and Robberies. 5. Victims' Contributions to the Crime Problem. 6. Victims and the Criminal Justice System: Cooperation and Conflict; Part 1: The Police. 7. Victims and the Criminal Justice System: Cooperation and Conflict; Part 2: Prosecutors, Defense Attorneys, Judges, Juries, and Corrections Officials. 8. Victimized Children. 9. Victims of Violence by Lovers and Family Members. 10. Victims of Rapes and Other Sexual Assaults. 11. Additional Groups of Victims with Special Problems. 12. Repaying Victims. 13. Victims in the Twenty-First Century: Alternative Directions. Glossary. References. Name Index. Subject Index.

Editorial Reviews

In this update of the mid-1990s edition, Karmen (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) adds Internet sites on crime statistics, laws, and victim services. As in the iterations since the early 1980s, the author<-->a crime victim as well as victimologist<-->summarizes both sides of controversial criminal justice issues while defending use of the term "victimology." Chapters include trend graphs, discussion questions, and boxed key points (e.g. Supreme Court decisions directly affecting victims.) Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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