NCJ Number
134420
Date Published
1989
Length
206 pages
Annotation
This book provides practical tips on avoiding criminal victimization. The author emphasizes that crime awareness is the beginning of crime prevention.
Abstract
There are detailed chapters on safety in cars and homes including advice on how to handle various situations ranging from breakdowns, parking, criminal ploys, burglaries, and physical confrontations. Home safety measures are provided as are strategies to deal with robberies and assaults. There are separate chapters on child-related crimes and safety education for children, rape and sexual assault, acquaintance rape, date rape, and gang rape; there are also chapters on procedures to follow after a rape and how to help rape victims. Another chapter deals with sexual, racial, and religious procedures, and safety tips to follow while walking and jogging, and while using public transportation. Other sections discuss hotels and motels, public restrooms, safety at work, automated teller machines, credit cards, and con men and scams. The final two chapters examine the psychological effects of victimization and the characteristics of habitual criminals.