Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims

The 1980s saw official crime policy in the United States shifting its focus from crime and criminals to victimization and victims. In this thought-provoking book, Robert Elias evaluates the effectiveness of this shift in policy and argues that victims have been politically manipulated for official o...

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Main Author: Elias, Robert 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks SAGE Publications 1993
In:Year: 1993
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505 8 |a Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 - Still Victims after All These Years; Chapter 2 - Media Amnesia: Abetting Victimization; Chapter 3 - Victims: All Dressed up but No Place to Go?; Chapter 4 - Taking the Victims' Movement for a Ride; Chapter 5 - Wars on Drugs as Wars on Victims; Chapter 6 - Do Victims Want Revenge?; Chapter 7 - Controlling Victimization: War or Peace?; Chapter 8 - New Culture, Less Victimization; Appendix; References; Index; About the Author 
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