NCJ Number
140133
Editor(s)
E C Viano
Date Published
1992
Length
272 pages
Annotation
These 22 papers present current and representative contributions that aim to balance practical and theoretical issues and provide a sample of international perspectives in research, prevention, treatment, and public policy related to crime victims.
Abstract
Two chapters address the social and political processes that influence and control the definition, depiction, and societal reaction to the victim, with emphasis on the influence of victims since World War Two on human consciousness and human rights and on the portrayal of crime victims in the mass media in the United States. Six papers examine the trauma of victimization, focusing on the wide range of psychological victimization effects, coping strategies, perceptions of violence in India and Italy, and cases involving elderly homicide victims in Illinois and Ohio. Five chapters focus on child victims and consider child abuse and neglect in Turkey, the long-term effects of child abuse and incest, treatment based on Erickson's developmental goals and a transpersonal model, child abuse reporting by mental health professionals in the United States, and the consequences of false allegations of child abuse. Four papers on sexual assault and harassment discuss sexual assault in Canada, sexual harassment of college students, women's perceptions of rape prevention strategies, and adolescent sex offenders in Rhode Island as both victim and perpetrator. Four papers focus on police interactions with burglary victims; crime reporting by victims in Italy; and Federal laws regarding victims and witnesses in the United States; and the impact of restitution on recidivism. Tables and chapter reference lists