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1 online resource (volumes) |
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""Understanding and Preventing Violence""; ""Copyright""; ""Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Public Perceptions and Reactions to Violent Offending and Victimization""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""FEAR OF VICTIMIZATION""; ""CONCEPTUAL ISSUES""; ""MEASURING FEAR""; ""SURVEY RESEARCH ON FEAR""; ""OFFENSE-SPECIFIC FEAR""; ""SOCIAL DISTRIBUTION OF FEAR""; ""OTHER CORRELATES""; ""CUES TO DANGER""; ""Dangerous Places""; ""Dangerous Persons""; ""Other Cues""; ""FEAR AND PRIOR VICTIMIZATION""; ""CONSEQUENCES OF FEAR""; ""SURVEY DATA ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF FEAR""; ""COLLECTIVE RESPONSES"" |
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""Fear in broader context""""sources of information on violence""; ""news coverage of crime""; ""criticisms of media news coverage""; ""crime as entertainment""; ""effects of media communications""; ""interpersonal diffusion of crime news""; ""perceived seriousness of offenses""; ""public opinion on criminal justice""; ""normative evaluations of punishment""; ""victim, offender, and respondent characteristics""; ""ethnopenologies""; ""public confidence in the criminal justice system""; ""future research""; ""fear of victimization""; ""other issues""; ""note""; ""references"" |
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""The Costs and Consequences of Violent Behavior in the United States""""INTRODUCTION""; ""IMPORTANCE OF ESTIMATING COSTS""; ""Comparison of Aggregate Crime Costs to Other Social Ills""; ""Comparison of Harm by Type of Victimization""; ""Benefit-Cost Analysis of Policy Options""; ""CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR ESTIMATING COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES""; ""MONETARY VERSUS NONMONETARY COSTS""; ""Interdependency of Cost Categories""; ""Offsetting Benefits of Victimization""; ""Efficient Versus Inefficient Costs""; ""Fixed, Average, and Marginal Costs""; ""Real Versus Opportunity Costs"" |
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""Victim Assistance and Other Cost-Reducing Costs""""Time Frame for Cost Estimation""; ""COSTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOR""; ""Direct Consequences of Violent Behavior""; ""Society's Response to Violent Behavior""; ""Offender Costs""; ""COST OF CRIME AND INJURY LITERATURE""; ""Approaches to Measuring the Cost of Injury""; ""Cost of Crime Literature""; ""Cost of Injury Literature""; ""THE COST OF VIOLENT BEHAVIOR""; ""COST OF VICTIM TREATMENT AND OTHER DIRECT COSTS""; ""Medical Care""; ""Mental Health Care""; ""Monetary Losses to Victims: Cash and Property"" |
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""Indirect Monetary and Nonmonetary Losses""""EMERGENCY RESPONSE TO VICTIMIZATION""; ""Victim Services""; ""Police Response Administrative Costs""; ""Emergency Transport""; ""VICTIM PRODUCTIVITY COSTS""; ""PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION COSTS""; ""Health and Life Insurance Claims""; ""Income Transfer Programs""; ""Property Insurance Claims""; ""Legal Costs Associated With Tort Claims""; ""Pain, Suffering, and Quality of Life Costs for Nonfatal Victims""; ""Evidence Using the Compensation Approach""; ""Evidence Using Willingness to Pay""; ""RISK OF DEATH"" |
| Notes |
V. 4 |
| Subject |
Violence -- United States -- Prevention
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Violence -- United States
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Violent crimes -- United States
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Violence.
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Violence -- Prevention.
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Violent crimes.
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United States.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0309586801 |
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9780309586801 |
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