MARC Record from Ithaca College Library

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050 00 $aHV6250.25$b.T6 1991
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245 00 $aTo be a victim :$bencounters with crime and injustice /$cedited by Diane Sank and David I. Caplan ; with the assistance of Brian Sank Firschein.
260 $aNew York :$bPlenum Press,$cc1991.
300 $axvi, 481 p. ;$c22 cm.
500 $a"Insight books."
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aWhy the concern for victims? -- Survivors of crime -- Thoughts about victims of crime and injustice and the nature of justice -- Concept of victimhood -- Victim compensation -- Street-crime victim compensation, retributive justice, and social-contract theory -- Rescuing victims-from social theory -- Systems science approach to crime, criminal justice, and victim justice -- African-Americans, crime victimization, and political obligations -- Rights of child abuse victims -- Victimology and blaming the victim : the case of rape -- Victims in seventeenth-century witchcraft trials -- Perpetrators of violent crime as potential victims of research in prison -- Computer crime and victim justice -- Patient-nurse and nurse-patient abuse.
505 0 $aJustice for health consumers and providers -- Victims of genocide -- Weapons control laws -- Behind barbed wire : the wartime incarceration of the Japanese-Americans -- Law and morality of war crimes trials -- Victims and arms in classical legal philosophy -- Is gun control legislation a solution for protecting victims? -- Why retributivists should care about deterrence -- Controversy over shared responsibility -- Preferring punishment of criminals over providing for victims -- What hope for victims? The need for new approaches and for new priorities.
650 0 $aVictims of crimes.
650 0 $aCriminal justice, Administration of.
650 0 $aHuman rights.
650 0 $aJustice.
650 0 $aReparation.
700 1 $aSank, Diane.
700 1 $aCaplan, David I.