Current Perspectives Reading for InfoTrac College Edition Victimology

by Wadsworth

• ISBN13: 9780495597179
• ISBN10: 0495597171
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-08-07
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

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Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
Victims' Plight	p. 1
Saving the Victim: Recuperating the Language of the Victim and Reassessing Global Feminism	p. 3
Law Aims to Help Victims of Identity Theft	p. 19
Stolen Identity, Legal Nightmare: A Hollywood Woman Finds that Victims of Identity Theft Can be Treated Like Criminals Themselves	p. 23
Domestic Violence: Risk Factors and Outcomes	p. 27
Woman Accused of Identity Theft: As a Warning to Potential Victims, Police Displayed Costly Items They Had Seized	p. 35
ID Theft Shocks Victims	p. 37
Statistics and Victimization Rates	p. 39
Woman's story gives life to statistics	p. 41
Victims Identified in South Omaha Shooting	p. 43
Murder Rate Increased in New Orleans	p. 45
Homicides Are Up Just a Bit in Seattle	p. 47
The New Math On Crime	p. 51
Three Die in Shootings as Bronx Murder Rate Climbs	p. 57
How Victims are Handled Throughout the System	p. 61
Dollars Boost Crime Fighters: Albany Police, County Prosecutors Get $1.3M from State Program	p. 63
Prosecutor Fights for More Funding	p. 67
False Crime Reports Tax Resources: Prosecutors Cracking Down	p. 69
Police Look for Victims of Lantana Child Porn Suspect	p. 71
New Evidence Failed to Help, Gotti's Prosecutors Discovered	p. 73
The Effect of Law Enforcement on Victims	p. 75
Doon Case: Victims' Kin Face Police Apathy	p. 77
Understanding Crime Rates: On the Interactions between the Rational Choices of Victims and Offenders	p. 79
Sexual Assault Suspect in Custody: Man Accused of Raping a Mother and Molesting Her Son	p. 99
DNA Rules Out Man Once Suspected of Rape: One Man is Freed and Another Arrested in August Attacks	p. 101
Making Criminals Pay for Justice: Proposal Would Fund Rape-Victim Programs	p. 103
Protection Orders Elusive	p. 107
Black Americans Were Victims in 15 Percent of All Nonfatal Violent Crimes and 49Percent of All Homicides During 2005	p. 111
Life Sentence: Co-Victims of Homicide	p. 113
Fighting Child Abuse: Lawmakers Back Stiffer Sentencing Guidelines	p. 125
InfoMarks: Make Your Mark	p. 127
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