Helping Crime Victims

by Roberts, Albert R.; Andrews, Arlene Bowers

• ISBN13: 9780803934689
• ISBN10: 0803934688
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1990-04-01
• Publisher: Sage Pubns

Summary

Prepared for use by informed citizens, victims' solicitors, social workers, criminal justice administrators, government officials and legislators, Helping Crime Victims offers the reader practical ideas and realistic strategies in the form of procedural guides and workable programme components and services that seem effective in meeting the needs of crime victims.

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Introduction and Overview of Victimology and Victim Services

PART TWO: NATIONAL SURVEY OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF 184 VICTIM SERVICE AND WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS

Background Functions and Services of Victim Service and Witness Assistance Programs

Specialized Services for Elderly Crime Victims

Organizational Issues

Victim

Witness Programs

Self-Evaluation of the Strengths, Problems, and Needed Changes

Model Victim Service and Witness Assistance Programs

PART THREE: PROGRAMS, RECOVERY SERVICES, AND REMEDIES FOR CRIME VICTIMS - Arnold Binder and Harriet Bemus

The University and the Development of Victim Services in Orange County, California - Eric Hickey

Responding to Missing and Murdered Children in America - Albert R Roberts and Beverly Schenkman Roberts

A Model for Crisis Intervention with Battered Women and Their Children - Arlene Bowers Andrews

Crisis and Recovery Services for Family Violence Survivors - Cathryn Jo Rosen and Alan T Harland

Restitution to Crime Victims as a Presumptive Requirement in Criminal Case Dispositions