ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts covered in the preceding chapters of this book. The book surveys the extensive literature comprising one portion (the area of victim compensation) of the field of victimology. It describes the research design devised to conduct this study and the difficulties of completing such a project. The book also describes that process by examining victims' backgrounds and characteristics, including their social traits, their community ties, and their general attitudes toward government and criminal justice. It explains the actual board members and investigators in the two programs, including their backgrounds, careers, attitudes toward government and criminal justice, perspectives on victim compensation, and decision-making influences. The book also explains some significant differences among the samples in victims' specific attitudes toward the officials in their case and toward their general criminal-justice experience. It also presents a contrast between board officials and the victims they serve in their backgrounds, and frequently in their attitudes, as well.
