ABSTRACT

Volume 6 in the 6-volume series titled Criminal Justice: Contemporary Literature in Theory and Practice. This compilation of articles attempts to fill gaps in existing resources with some of the best current statements on the topic. Subjects include the characteristics of victims, the effects of crime on victims, and some contemporary theories of victimization. Also included are evaluations of a variety of victim-oriented policies and programs, such as victim assistance, peace-making, and victim-impact statements. This title will be of great utility to students, scholars, and others with interests in the literature of criminal justice and criminology.

chapter |15 pages

Fighting Fire with Fire

The Effects of Victim Resistance in Intimate Versus Stranger Perpetrated Assaults Against Females 1

chapter |14 pages

Determining Police Response to Domestic Violence Victims

The Role of Victim Preference

chapter |28 pages

Ecological and Behavioral Influences on Property Victimization at Home

Implications for Opportunity Theory

chapter |12 pages

United States Crime Victim Assistance

History, Organization and Evaluation

chapter |14 pages

Radical Victimology

A Critique of the Concept of Victim in Traditional Victimology

chapter |12 pages

Psychological Distress Following Criminal Victimization in the General Population

Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Prospective Analyses

chapter |20 pages

Advice to Crime Victims

Effects of Crime, Victim, and Advisor Factors

chapter |26 pages

New Wine and Old Wineskins

Four Challenges of Restorative Justice *