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Title Trends and issues in victimology / edited by Natti Ronel, K. Jaishankar, and Moshe Bensimon
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 338 pages)
Contents Foreword / Gerd F. Kirchhoff -- Editors' introduction -- Between perception and victimization : trends and issues in victimology / Natti Ronel, K. Jaishankar & Moshe Bensimon -- pt. I. Justice for victims -- Ideology and the behavior of perpetrators and victims of violence / Noach (Norman) Milgram -- An informal approach to delinquents and their victims : an alternative to standard punishment / Uri Timor -- Family-group conferencing in Israel : the voices of victims following restorative justice proceedings / Esther Schachaf-Friedman & Uri Timor -- Restitution : a multilateral penal approach / Sharon Aharoni-Goldenberg and Yael Wilchek-Aviad -- Malimath Committee and crime victims : resurrecting the forgotten voices of the Indian criminal justice system / K. Jaishankar, P. Madhava Soma Sundaram & Debarati Halder -- pt. II. Issues of sexual victimization -- Reclaiming power? Women victims of sexual violence and the civil legal system / Yifat Bitton -- Sexual assault victims : empowerment of re-victimization? The need for a therapeutic jurisprudence model / Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg -- Blaming victims and bystanders in the context of rape / Inna Levy & Sarah Ben-David -- Victims of sexual harassment in modern work places in India / P. Madhava Soma Sundaram, K. Jaishankar & Megha Desai -- The relationship betwen childhood victimization, drug abuse and PTSD and adult delinquency in a prison population / Sarah Ben-David & Ili Goldberg -- Illustratied examples of victimization -- Alienation and emotional distress among relocated youth following the Gaza disengagement / Avital Laufer & Mally Shechory -- Criminal victimization and social networks in India / Nandini Rai -- Soldier suicides : a victimological perspective / Ehud Bodner -- A survey of stalking victims in India / K. Jaishankar, Megha Desai & P. Madhava Soma Sundaram -- Abused Druze women's strategies of resistance / Brenda Geiger -- Epilogue / Leslie Sebba -- Scientific committee of reviewers -- About the editors -- About the authors -- Subject index
Summary This book focuses on varied practical and theoretical issues of the science of victims, Victimology. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by leading victimologists, and fifteen original essays by leading as well as by young international victimologists, Tren
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
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Subject Victims of crimes.
Crime Victims
Social services & welfare, criminology.
Crime & criminology.
Criminal law & procedure.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Victims of crimes
Form Electronic book
Author Ronel, Natti
Jaishankar, K
Bensimon, Moshe
LC no. 2009482188
ISBN 9781443814539
1443814539
1282413805
9781282413801
9786612413803
6612413808