Towards a Critical Victimology
Towards a Critical Victimology offers a serious challenge to the law and order perspective on victims' rights and the false contest that is usually created between those rights and the rights of offenders. It sheds light on the way victim initiatives emer
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FROM CRIME POLICY TO VICTIM POLICY: Reorienting the Justice System THE PLIGHT OF CRIME VICTIMS IN MODERN SOCmTY CRIME AND VICTIMIZATION OF THE ELDERLY (co-author) UNDERSTANDING CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION
Towards a Critical Victimology Edited by
Ezzat A. Fattah
Professor of Criminology Simon Fraser University British Columbia
Selection, editorial maUer and Chapter I © Ezzat A. Fatlah 1992 Chapter 2 © Donald R. Cressey 1992 Chapter 3 © Robert Elias 1992 Chapter 4 © Lynne N. Henderson 1992 Chapter 5 © Leslie Sebba 1992 Chapter 6 © Donald R. Ranish and David Shicor 1992 Chapter 7 © Howard C. Rubel 1992 Chapter 8 © Thomas L. Feher 1992 Chapter 9 © Anthony Walsh 1992 Chapter 10 © Tony Dittenhoffer and Richard V. Ericson 1992 Chapter II © Burt Galaway 1992 Chapter 12 © Robert Elias 1992 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1992 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written pennission. No paragraph of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmiued save with written pennission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the tenns of any licence penniuing limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, 90 Touenham Court Road, London WI P 9HE. Any person who does any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. First published in Great Britain 1992 by THE MACMILLAN PRESS LTD Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 2XS and London Companies and representatives throughout the world A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-349-22091-5
ISBN 978-1-349-22089-2 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-1-349-22089-2
1098765432 06 05 04 03 02 01 99 98 First published in the United States of America 1992 by Scholarly and Reference Division, ST. MARTIN'S PRESS, INC., 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. 10010
ISBN 978-0-312-07551-4 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Towards a critical victimology / edited by Ezzat A. Fattah. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 978-0-312-07551-4 I. Victims of crimes. HV6250.25.T68 1992 362.88-dc20 91-45851 CIP
To my dear friends and distinguished colleagues Denis Szabo Henri Ellenberger Hans Joachim Schneider Koichi Miyazawa
Contents Acknowledgements Preface Notes on the Contributors
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PROLOGUE The Need for a Critical Victimology Ezzat A. Fattah PART ONE CRITICAL VIEWS ON VICTIMOLOGY AND VICTIM POLICY 1 Victims and Victimology: The Facts and the Rhetoric Ezzat A. Fattah
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2 Research Implications of Conflicting Conceptions of Victimology Donald R. Cressey
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3 Which Victim Movement? The Politics of Victim Policy Robert Elias
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4 The Wrongs of Victim's Rights Lynne N. Henderson PART TWO THE VICTIM'S ROLE IN THE PENAL PROCESS: CRITICAL VIEWS 5 The Victim's Role in the Penal Process: A Theoretical Orientation Leslie Sebba
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6 The Victim's Role in the Penal Process: Recent Developments in California Donald
