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Victimology: Theories and Applications introduces readers to the study of victimization, crime typologies, and the impact of crime on victims, offenders, and society at large. Each chapter provides a typology of the offender to analyze motivation, and includes an overview of the issues related to people who become victims of a wide variety of traditional and contemporary crimes such as child maltreatment, intimate partner violence, elder abuse, cyber crime and hate crimes. The history and theories of victimology are explored, as well definitive laws and policies, strategies for intervention, and future research areas.

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• Preface(p. xiii)
• About the Authors(p. xvii)
• Tribute(p. xix)
• 1 Crime and Victimology(p. 1)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Victims of Violence(p. 2)
• Definition(p. 4)
• Victimology and Criminology(p. 5)
• Scope of the Field(p. 6)
• Measuring Rates of Victimization(p. 10)
• Trends in Crime(p. 14)
• Crime Victims' Movement(p. 18)
• Forensic Victimology and Investigative Profiling(p. 20)
• 2 Victimology Concepts and Theories(p. 31)
• Introduction(p. 31)
• Criminological Theories(p. 31)
• Victimology and its Pioneers(p. 35)
• Early Victim Typologies(p. 38)
• Traditional Victim Concepts(p. 40)
• Contemporary Concepts in Victimology(p. 46)
• Victim Concept Analysis(p. 48)
• Concepts Related to Compensation for Victims of Crime(p. 50)
• Concepts Related to Justice and Alternative Forms of Justice(p. 53)
• 3 Victim Services, Legislation, and Treatment(p. 67)
• Introduction(p. 67)
• Victim Rights Legislation(p. 69)
• Services for Victims(p. 74)
• Psychological Response to Victimization(p. 84)
• Assessment Measures and Protocols(p. 86)
• Treatment Interventions(p. 88)
• 4 The Justice Systems(p. 101)
• Introduction(p. 101)
• Greek Mythology(p. 102)
• The Code of Ur-Nammu(p. 102)
• Urukagina(p. 102)
• The Code of Hammurabi(p. 103)
• Mosaic Law(p. 104)
• Roman Law(p. 104)
• Code of Justinian(p. 105)
• Feudalism(p. 105)
• English Common Law(p. 106)
• Magna Carta(p. 106)
• Contemporary Codes and Laws(p. 107)
• Criminal Law(p. 107)
• Entering the Criminal Justice System(p. 110)
• Civil Justice System(p. 118)
• 5 Child and Adolescent Victimization(p. 127)
• Introduction(p. 127)
• Scope of the Problem(p. 128)
• Typology of Child Maltreatment(p. 130)
• Legislation and Child Maltreatment(p. 134)
• Increase in Research(p. 136)
• The Consequences Extend into Adult Life(p. 136)
• Dynamics of Disclosure in Child Abuse(p. 137)
• Effect of Traumatic Events on Children(p. 138)
• Developmental Traumatology(p. 139)
• Typologies of Sex Offenders of Children(p. 140)
• Complex Child Trauma(p. 146)
• Special Issues in Child and Youth Cases(p. 148)
• Suicidal Impulses and Violence Against Others(p. 150)
• Treatment Issues(p. 154)
• Child Pornography, Prostitution, and Sex Trafficking(p. 155)
• Youth Gangs(p. 158)
• Services(p. 161)
• Resources(p. 163)
• 6 Victims of School Shooters(p. 173)
• Introduction(p. 173)
• Case of Charles Whitman(p. 174)
• Scope of the Problem(p. 176)
• Effect on Students(p. 177)
• Intervention(p. 177)
• Cases of School Shooters(p. 178)
• Myths About School Shooters(p. 183)
• Motivation for School Shootings(p. 186)
• The School Shooter Phenomenon and Threat Assessment(p. 187)
• The Four-Pronged Assessment Model(p. 190)
• Threat Assessment Model for Threatening Communications(p. 194)
• 7 Intimate Partner Violence(p. 197)
• Introduction(p. 197)
• Scope of the Problem(p. 199)
• Legal Responses to Intimate Partner Violence(p. 201)
• Effects of Intimate Partner Violence on Victims(p. 204)
• Intimate Partner Violence in Same-Sex Couples(p. 205)
• Child Witnesses of Intimate Partner Violence(p. 206)
• Continuum of Intimate Violence(p. 208)
• Batterer Typologies(p. 208)
• Intersections Between Batterer Typologies and the Continuum of Violence(p. 210)
• Homicide in the Context of Intimate Partner Violence(p. 212)
• Intervention Programs in Intimate Partner Violence(p. 216)
• 8 Victims of Rape and Sexual Assault(p. 225)
• Introduction(p. 225)
• Definition of Rape and Sexual Assault(p. 227)
• Scope of the Problem(p. 228)
• Theoretical Framework(p. 232)
• Dynamics of Reporting Rape(p. 234)
• Legislation, Public Policies, and Funding Rape Reform(p. 239)
• Typology of Sexual Trauma(p. 241)
• The Psychological Impact of Sexual Assault(p. 244)
• Classifying Rapists(p. 245)
• False Allegation(p. 249)
• Prison Rape(p. 251)
• Resources(p. 251)
• 9 Stalking Victims(p. 261)
• Introduction(p. 261)
• Scope of the Problem(p. 263)
• Stalking Laws(p. 264)
• Typology of Stalking(p. 267)
• Effects of Stalking on Victims(p. 273)
• Safety Strategies for Victims(p. 275)
• Threat Assessment of Stalkers(p. 277)
• Treatment of Stalkers(p. 279)
• 10 Elder Abuse Victims(p. 287)
• Introduction(p. 287)
• Scope of the Problem(p. 288)
• Elder Abuse Legislation(p. 288)
• Types of Elder Abuse(p. 290)
• Categories of Abusive Situations(p. 293)
• Assessment of Elder Abuse(p. 300)
• Interventions(p. 301)
• 11 Homicide: Victims, Their Families, and the Community(p. 309)
• Introduction(p. 309)
• Scope of the Problem(p. 310)
• Legal Responses to Murder(p. 311)
• Classification of Homicides(p. 314)
• Homicide Victimization Theories(p. 318)
• Demographic Correlates and Homicide Offending(p. 319)
• Homicide Typologies(p. 320)
• Response to Family Member Homicide(p. 332)
• 12 Hate Crimes(p. 343)
• Introduction(p. 343)
• Scope of the Problem(p. 344)
• Hate Crime Legislation(p. 346)
• Typology of Hate Crimes(p. 348)
• Typology of Offender Motivation(p. 355)
• Impact of Hate Crimes on Victims(p. 358)
• 13 Victims of Cybercrime(p. 365)
• Introduction(p. 365)
• Scope of the Problem(p. 366)
• The Legal Context(p. 366)
• Types of Internet Crime(p. 369)
• 14 Other Forms of Victimization(p. 391)
• Introduction(p. 391)
• Other Forms of Victimization from Criminal Activity
• Victims of Disaster(p. 401)
• Victims of the Justice System(p. 406)
• Index(p. 417)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Ann Wolbert Burgess, RN, DNSc, FAAN, is professor of Psychiatric Mental Health Nursing at Boston College's Connell School of Nursing. She received her bachelors and doctoral degrees from Boston University and her masters degree from the University of Maryland. She teaches five forensic courses: Victimology, Forensic Mental Health, Forensic Science, Forensic Science Lab, and Wounded Warriors in Transition. She, with Lynda Lytle Holmstrom (Boston College), cofounded one of the first hospital-based crisis intervention programs for rape victims at Boston City Hospital. She is licensed as an advanced practice nurse in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts, where she also maintains prescriptive authority. Dr. Burgess has testified as an expert witness in 31 states and has received grants and published articles on the topics of rape trauma, child sexual abuse, child pornography, serial offenders, crime classification, posttraumatic stress, elder abuse, and wounded warriors.'Dr. Burgess served as chair of the first Advisory Council to the National Center for the Prevention and Control of Rape of the National Institute of Mental Health, was a member of the 1984 U.S. Attorney General's Task Force on Family Violence, served on the planning committee for the 1985 Surgeon General's Symposium on Violence, and served on the National Institute of Health National Advisory Council for the Center for Nursing Research from 1986 to 1988. She was a member of the 1990 Adolescent Health Advisory Panel to the Congress of the United States Office of Technology Assessment and Chair of the National Institutes of Health AIDS and Related Research Study Section (ARRR 6) from 1992 to 1994. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences Institute of Medicine in October 1994 and chaired the 1996 National Research Council's Task Force on Violence Against Women. She was inducted into the Sigma Theta Tau. Her current research is on patterns of murder-suicide and combat-PTSD.

Cheryl Regehr, MSW, PhD, is a professor in the Faculty of Social Work and the Faculty of Law at University of Toronto. Professor Regehr is presently the Vice-Provost, Academic Programs at the University of Toronto. She was previously the Dean of Social Work. Professor Regehr's practice background includes 20 years of direct service in forensic social work and emergency mental health and in the administration of mental health programs, specializing in workplace trauma interventions and civil litigation and criminal court assessments of trauma victims and violent offenders. Her research, funded by the Social Sciences and Humanites Research Council of Canada and the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, examines the impact of trauma and victimization. Her publications address both issues of trauma and the interface between the law and mental health.

The late Albert R. Roberts, Ph.D., D.A.C.F.E., was a Professor of Criminal Justice and Social Work, and Director of Faculty and Curriculum Development in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey at Piscataway.