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To be a victim : encounters with crime and injustice

Author: Diane Sank; David I Caplan
Publisher: New York : Plenum Press, ©1991.
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Additional Physical Format: Online version:
To be a victim.
New York : Plenum Press, c1991
(OCoLC)645805002
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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