Crime Victims: An Introduction to Victimology |  | Author: Andrew Karmen
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: 7
Pages: 528
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Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8
ISBN: 0495599298
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780495599296
ASIN: 0495599298
Publication Date: March 9, 2009
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Product Description
A first in the field and true classic, CRIME VICTIMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VICTIMOLOGY offers the most comprehensive and balanced exploration of victimology - a vital new and, at times, controversial branch of criminology - available today. The author examines the victims' plight, and is careful to place statistics from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report and Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey in context. The text systematically investigates how victims' currently are handled by the criminal justice system, analyzes the goals of the victims' rights movement, and discusses what the future is likely to hold. This seventh edition expands coverage of human trafficking, crimes on campus, identity theft, stalking, motor vehicle theft, and prisoners attacked behind bars. This student-friendly textbook will serve as a valuable home-library reference book for anyone interested in criminology and criminal justice.
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 Need book! February 15, 2010
Alice M. Harnisch (TOPEKA KANSAS)
This book was needed ASAP! Good condition, timely fashion and needed it just in time.
 A competent overview January 25, 2008
J. Crowley (NM USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have been teaching Victimology classes using Karmen's book since the first edition. I have occasionally tried other books, and always gone back to Karmen. For a semester of intensive work, this comprehensive book from someone with real experience on victim issues is about the right length. My only complaint is that he sometimes bends over too far backward trying to be balanced. If you want a thorough overview of issues concerning crime victims in the American criminal justice system, this is as good as it gets.
 Long Vehicle - Please Do NOT Pass November 27, 1999
Jerry Glover (Crete, Greece)
23 out of 31 found this review helpful
Unfortunately, Wadsworth editors allowed Andrew Karmen to turn what could have been a nippy little sports car into a 14-wheeler. The 370+ pages could have been edited to 200 had an editor removed the padding. Instead of zipping along, readers have to drag both themselves and an articulated truckful of words behind them. No verb is left without an adverb and synonym, no noun without an adjective and a thesaurus-full of alternatives, and no idea passes without a repetitive redundancy. Consider, just as an example, the "media." No, you are not smart enough to know what the media are; Andrew spells it all out - "The news media - newspapers, magazines, and radio and television stations - deserve...." (page 25) Gee, thanks, Andrew, I really needed that pointed out to me! I won't bother with more.All of this is a pity because the subject matter is important. But the book -in the way that it is written - suggests that this is a little subject being dressed up, padded and presented as more than it is. And that is the opposite of what I believe, and the opposite of what Andrew Karmen intends. The book is worth reading, but prepare for heavy hauling. Wadsworth - you have done Andrew and Victimology a disservice. Jerry Glover
 Didn't Read --- Wrong Book for Class February 13, 2009
S. Simmons (Lawrence, NJ)
0 out of 10 found this review helpful
I'm sure this is a very good book but I didn't even look at it since it's the wrong book for my class. I waited too long to return it though so now I'm stuck with it.
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