Victims of the System

Victims of the System
Author: Robert Elias
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351300024

This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves.Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows how programs differ when compensation is viewed essentially as welfare and when it is viewed as a right. The study uses extensive interviews with officials and with violent crime victims.The study indicates victim compensation programs largely fail to achieve their stated goals of improving attitudes toward the criminal-justice system and the government. The programs produce poor attitudes toward government and criminal justice.

Victims' Rights

Victims' Rights
Author: William L. Ginsburg
Publisher: Sphinx Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1994
Genre: Law
ISBN:

"Who qualifies, how to qualify, how to apply, how much is available, rights of relatives, who to contact"--Cover.

Justice for Victims

Justice for Victims
Author: Inge Vanfraechem
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136207759

Justice for Victims brings together the world’s leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimization in a pioneering international collection. This book focuses on the current study of victims of crime, combining both legal and social-scientific perspectives, articulating both in new directions and questioning whether victims really do have more rights in our modern world. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach, covering large-scale (political) victimization, terrorist victimization, sexual victimization and routine victimization. Split into three sections, this book provides in-depth coverage of: victims' rights, transitional justice and victims' perspectives, and trauma, resilience and justice. Victims' rights are conceptualised in the human rights framework and discussed in relation to supranational, international and regional policies. The transitional justice section covers victims of war from those caught between peace and justice, as well as post-conflict justice. The final section focuses on post-traumatic stress, connecting psychological and anthropological perceptions in analysing collective violence, mass victimization and trauma. This book addresses challenging and new issues in the field of victimology and the study of transitional and restorative justice. As such, it will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students interested in the fields of victimology, transitional justice, restorative justice and trauma work.

Victims of Crime Compensation

Victims of Crime Compensation
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Publisher:
Total Pages: 384
Release: 1979
Genre: Government publications
ISBN: