Victims, Crime and Society

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Pamela Davies, Peter Francis, Chris Greer
SAGE, 2007 M11 18 - 304 páginas
'Focusing on key issues, themes and concepts within victimology, this edited collection provides an accessible and comprehensive critical analysis of crucial areas within victimisation. The main theories are related to, and integrated with, empirical research in an engaging style.' - Dr Anette Ballinger, Keele University

'This book achieves the rare feat of helping its readers without patronising them. The aids to the reader - tables, boxes, glossaries, questions, and suggestions for further reading - will prove genuinely helpful to students and their teachers, but they appear within a text that is theoretically informed as well as comprehensive and up to date in its coverage. It deserves to be widely read and used in the teaching of criminology, victimology, and criminal justice' - Professor David Smith, University of Lancaster, UK.

Organized around the intersecting social divisions of class, race, age and gender, the book provides an engaging and authoritative overview of the nature of victimisation in society. In addition to a review of the major theoretical developments in relation to understanding aspects of victimization in society, individual chapters explore the political and social context of victimisation and the historical, comparative and contemporary research and scholarly work on it.

Each chapter includes the following:

- Background and glossary

- Theory, research and policy review

- `Thinking critically about...' sections

- Reflections and future research directions

- Summary and conclusions

- Annotated bibliography

Victims, Crime and Society is the essential text on victims for students of criminology, criminal justice, community safety, youth justice and related areas.

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1 Victims Crime and Society
1
2 News Media Victims and Crime
20
3 Social Class Social Exclusion Victims and Crime
50
4 Victims of WhiteCollar and Corporate Crime
78
5 Race Ethnicity Victims and Crime
109
6 Men Victims and Crime
142
7 Women Victims and Crime
165
8 Young People Victims and Crime
202
9 Old Age Victims and Crime
234
10 Criminal InJustice for Victims?
251
Index
279
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Peter has worked at Northumbria University since 1994 and before that at the Universities of Leicester and Hull. He gained his undergraduate degree from Northumbria University and studied at postgraduate level at Hull University. Between 2002 and 2008 he was a Senior Advisor to the Home Office and has been a council member and trustee of the independent charity the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Kings College, London since 1996.

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