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The politics of victimization : victims, victimology, and human rights / Robert Elias.
Van Pelt Library HV6250.3.U5 E44 1986
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Elias, Robert, 1950-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Victims of crimes--United States.
- Victims of crimes.
- United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--United States.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 395 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
- Summary:
- This useful text provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the study of victims and victimization. Victimization is here considered as a reflection of American society. Taking a broad perspective, Elias argues that the study of victimology requires more than merely analyzing criminal justice; it requires linking it to much wider social, political and economic relations--especially to the American political economy. This study rejects the official definition of crime and victimization and establishes a relationship between victimology and human rights, thus advocating a "new" victimology which embraces victims of both crime and repression. Elias proposes that since much crime arises in response to various forms of oppression, a society unconcerned with human rights violations and its victims can likewise provide little help for crime victims.
- Notes:
- Includes indexes.
- Bibliography: pages [246]-372.
- ISBN:
- 0195039807
- 0195039815
- OCLC:
- 12663840
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