Crime Victims av Andrew (John Jay College of Criminal Justice) Karmen

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Learn about victimology from a true classic text in the field. CRIME VICTIMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VICTIMOLOGY, Tenth Edition offers the most comprehensive and balanced exploration of victimology available today. The author examines the victims'' plight, carefully placing statistics from the FBI''s Uniform Crime Report and Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey in context. At the same time, he "humanizes" victims'' stories through compelling case studies. The text systematically investigates how victims are currently handled by the criminal justice system, analyzes the goals of the victims'' rights movement, and discusses what the future is likely to hold. In this up-to-date edition, you''ll read about the practical issues facing victims and learn about "survivorology" and "bystanderology." You''ll also gain insight into the seriousness of intimate partner violence, child abuse, sexual assaults in the U.S. military, acquaintance rapes on college campuses, shooti