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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: To be a victim. New York : Plenum Press, c1991 (OCoLC)645805002 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Diane Sank; David I Caplan |
| ISBN: | 030643962X 9780306439629 |
| OCLC Number: | 24009395 |
| Notes: | "Insight books." |
| Description: | xvi, 481 p. ; 22 cm. |
| Contents: | Why the concern for victims? -- Survivors of crime -- Thoughts about victims of crime and injustice and the nature of justice -- Concept of victimhood -- Victim compensation -- Street-crime victim compensation, retributive justice, and social-contract theory -- Rescuing victims-from social theory -- Systems science approach to crime, criminal justice, and victim justice -- African-Americans, crime victimization, and political obligations -- Rights of child abuse victims -- Victimology and blaming the victim : the case of rape -- Victims in seventeenth-century witchcraft trials -- Perpetrators of violent crime as potential victims of research in prison -- Computer crime and victim justice -- Patient-nurse and nurse-patient abuse. Justice for health consumers and providers -- Victims of genocide -- Weapons control laws -- Behind barbed wire : the wartime incarceration of the Japanese-Americans -- Law and morality of war crimes trials -- Victims and arms in classical legal philosophy -- Is gun control legislation a solution for protecting victims? -- Why retributivists should care about deterrence -- Controversy over shared responsibility -- Preferring punishment of criminals over providing for victims -- What hope for victims? The need for new approaches and for new priorities. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Diane Sank and David I. Caplan ; with the assistance of Brian Sank Firschein. |
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