Victims of Crime and the Victimization Process

by McShane,; McShane

• ISBN13: 9780815325130
• ISBN10: 0815325134
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Series Introduction	vii	(4)
Volume Introduction	xi
Fighting Fire with Fire: The Effects of Victim Resistance in Intimate Versus Stranger Perpetrated Assaults Against Females	1	(15)
Ronet Bachman
Dianne Cyr Carmody
Determining Police Response to Domestic Violence Victims: The Role of Victim Preference	16	(15)
Eve S. Buzawa
Thomas Austin
The Effects of Victim Impact Statements on Sentencing Decisions: A Test in an Urban Setting	31	(17)
Robert C. Davis
Barbara E. Smith
Juvenile Victimization and Delinquency	48	(27)
Finn-Aage Esbensen
David Huizinga
From Crime Policy to Victim Policy: The Need for a Fundamental Policy Change	75	(19)
Ezzat A. Fattah
The Psychological Adjustment of Recent Crime Victims in the Criminal Justice System	94	(19)
John R. Freedy
Heidi S. Resnick
Dean G. Kilpatrick
Bonnie S. Dansky
Ritchie P. Tidwell
The Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990	113	(26)
James B. Jacobs
Barry Eisler
Ecological and Behavioral Influences on Property Victimization at Home: Implications for Opportunity Theory	139	(28)
James P. Lynch
David Cantor
A Protrait of Crime Victims Who Fight Back	167	(30)
Chris E. Marshall
Vincent J. Webb
United States Crime Victim Assistance: History, Organization and Evaluation	197	(13)
Robert J. Mc Cormack
Radical Victimology: A Critique of the Concept of Victim in Traditional Victimology	210	(15)
Marilyn D. McShane
Frank P. Williams III
Understanding Theories of Criminal Victimization	225	(42)
Robert F. Meier
Terance D. Miethe
Psychological Distress Following Criminal Victimization in the General Population: Cross-Sectional, Longitudinal, and Prospective Analyses	267	(14)
Fran H. Norris
Krzysztof Kaniasty
Advice to Crime Victims: Effects of Crime, Victim, and Advisor Factors	281	(20)
R. Barry Ruback
Long-Term Consequences of Victimization by White-Collar Crime	301	(24)
Neal Shover
Greer Litton Fax
Michael Mills
Cross-Site Analysis of Victim-Offender Mediation in Four States	325	(22)
Mark S. Umbreit
Robert B. Coates
New Wine and Old Wineskins: Four Challenges of Restorative Justice	347	(26)
Daniel W. Van Ness
Acknowledgments	373