Imagining The Victim Of Crime

Imagining The Victim Of Crime
ISBN-10
0335217273
ISBN-13
9780335217274
Category
Social Science
Pages
189
Language
English
Published
2006-10-01
Publisher
McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Authors
Sandra, Walklate

Description

"Concern for the victims of crime first emerged with the formation of the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board in 1964. This has continued with the increase in crime rates since the 1970s and 1980s and in the aftermath of a number of high profile trials. In this book Sandra Walklate offers an introduction to the key theoretical, methodological and substantive issues in victimology and criminal victimization. She situates the contemporary preoccupation with criminal victimization within the broader social and cultural changes of the last twenty-five years. Written in the context of post-September 11, and alongside the events in Madrid of 2004 and London in July 2005, it questions who can be considered a victim of crime and what the response to such victimization might look like." -- BOOK JACKET.

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