Victimisation provides an accessible but critical review of the study of victims and victimisation, particularly in the areas of theory, research, policy and practice. It aims to provide students with an introduction and overview of the core areas relating to the study of victims and victimisation including: the causes of victimisation; its nature, extent and impact; methods of research; issues of class, age, race, gender and community; the policy context; mechanisms for tackling victimisation and the comparative context. Each contributor to the volume explores a range of historical and...
Victimisation provides an accessible but critical review of the study of victims and victimisation, particularly in the areas of theory, research, pol...
Gender, Crime and Victimisation is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book, exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimization. It offers a thorough examination of how these patterns in society are variously established and represented, researched, explained, and responded to by policy makers and criminal justice agencies.
Bringing together key theory, research and policy developments, the book combines perspectives on the study of criminology with those of victimology and gender studies - drawing particularly on the influence of feminism. It analyses processes of...
Gender, Crime and Victimisation is a thoughtful and thought-provoking book, exploring gender patterns in both offending and victimization. It offer...
This title provides a review of the study of victims and victimization, particularly in the areas of theory, research, policy and practice. It aims to provide students with an introduction and overview of the core areas relating to the study of victims and victimization.
This title provides a review of the study of victims and victimization, particularly in the areas of theory, research, policy and practice. It aims to...
Why does so much crime and victimisation remain invisible and what can be done about it? This is the central tenet of Invisible Crimes and Social Harms, a ground-breaking new collection of chapters, in the Palgrave Macmillan series Critical Criminological Perspectives. Invisible Crimes and Social Harms explores the reasons for the continuing invisibility of much crime and harm and the lack of adequate response, explains how various injustices have become more visible or rendered less so over time and place, and explores what can be done to connect the intellectual with...
Why does so much crime and victimisation remain invisible and what can be done about it? This is the central tenet of Invisible Crimes and Social ...
This book provides a thorough account of victimization across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender. The Second Edition has been fully revised and expanded, with two parts now spanning the key perspectives and issues in victimology.
Covering theoretical, social and political contexts, the book:
Includes new chapters on defining and constructing victims, fear and vulnerability, sexuality, white collar crime and the implications of crime policy on victims
Examines a global range of historical and theoretical perspectives in...
This book provides a thorough account of victimization across the social spectrum of class, race, age and gender. The Second Edition
A contemporary guide to the criminal justice process, the broad scope of this book means it will be a trusted companion throughout a Criminology and/or Criminal Justice degree.
The contents of An Introduction to Criminal Justice include:
23 chapters spanning all that's involved with, and fully contextualising, the criminal justice process: the agencies, institutions and processes and procedures that deal with victims, offenders and offending
A detailed timeline of criminal justice since 1945
Consideration of victims and witnesses,...
A contemporary guide to the criminal justice process, the broad scope of this book means it will be a trusted companion throughout a Criminology an...
