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To Be a Victim

Encounters with Crime and Injustice

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Table of contents (26 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction and Overview

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Why the Concern for Victims?

      • Diane Sank, Brian Sank Firschein
      Pages 3-23
  3. Perspectives on Victims

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 25-25
    2. Survivors of Crime

      • Marlene A. Young
      Pages 27-42
    3. The Concept of Victimhood

      • James E. Bayley
      Pages 53-62
  4. Crime

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 63-65
    2. Individual Victims

      1. The Rights of Child Abuse Victims
        • Marie-Louise Friquegnon, Willavene Wolf
        Pages 161-169
      2. Victimology and Blaming the Victim
        • Susan R. Peterson
        Pages 171-177
    3. Corporate or Institutional Victims

      1. Computer Crime and Victim Justice
        • John T. Chu
        Pages 217-234
      2. Patient-Nurse and Nurse-Patient Abuse
        • Elsie L. Bandman, Bertram Bandman
        Pages 235-247
      3. Justice for Health Consumers and Providers
        • Bertram Bandman, Elsie L. Bandman
        Pages 249-265

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, The City College, City University of New York, New York, USA

    Diane Sank

  • Madison, USA

    David I. Caplan

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: To Be a Victim

  • Book Subtitle: Encounters with Crime and Injustice

  • Editors: Diane Sank, David I. Caplan

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-5974-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1991

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-0-306-43962-9Published: 01 January 1991

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-5974-4Published: 09 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 481

  • Topics: Criminology and Criminal Justice, general

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