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Routledge handbook on victims' issues in criminal justice /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roberson, Cliff, 1937- (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Edition:1 Edition.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to victims' rights
  • Preface
  • Forward
  • Issues in victim services
  • Federal victims¿ legislation
  • Victims' assistance programs¿ reforms
  • Victims in criminology theory
  • Victims' rights legislation: comparative assessment and implementation issues
  • Victim issues regarding specific types of victimization
  • Expanding the conceptualization of survivor in sexual assaults
  • Intimate partner violence, neoliberal ideologies, and controversies about victimhood
  • Why me : understanding cybercrime victimization
  • Hate crime victimization
  • Counseling families of murdered victims : a therapeutic perspective
  • Members of the LGBT community as victims of crime
  • Victim services
  • Enhancing service provider systems
  • Special needs of elderly victims
  • Factors surrounding providers' views of Latina immigrant victims
  • Victim impact statements : understanding and improving their use
  • Victims' needs and restorative justice
  • Helping assault victims
  • Victim witnesses in investigative interviews and court processes
  • Victim service organizations
  • History of the world society of victimology
  • Victimology and victims' service organizations
  • Victims and the media
  • About the editor and contributors.