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Victims still : the political manipulation of crime victims
- Title
- Victims still : the political manipulation of crime victims / Robert Elias.
- Author
- Elias, Robert, 1950-
- Publication
- Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications, ©1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | HV6250.3.U5 E46 1993 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- ix, 177 pages; 24 cm
- Summary
- "In this book, author Robert Elias evaluates the effectiveness of the last decade's victim policy and argues that victims have been politically manipulated for official objectives. As a result, little victim support has materialized, and victimization keeps escalating. Victims Still examines victim legislation, get-tough crime policies, media crime coverage, the victim movement, and the wars on crime and drugs. In addition, Elias proposes solutions that could lead to substantially less crime. Book jacket."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Victims of crimes > United States
- Criminal justice, Administration of > United States
- Reparation (Criminal justice) > United States
- Criminal justice, Administration of
- Reparation (Criminal justice)
- Victims of crimes
- Kriminalpolitik
- Verbrechensopfer
- Criminaliteit
- Hulpverlening
- Slachtoffers
- Registratie (administratie)
- Victimes > États-Unis
- Justice pénale > Administration > États-Unis
- Réparation (droit) > États-Unis
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-169) and index.
- Contents
- Still Victims After All These Years -- Promises, Promises -- Who Benefits From Victim Policy? -- The Political Manipulation of Victims -- Media Amnesia: Abetting Victimization -- Crime Stories -- Defining the Crime Problem -- Who Are the Criminals? -- Heroes and Victims -- Savages and Bleeding Hearts -- Covering Victims -- Tempted by the Devil -- Experts Right and Wrong -- And Now for Something Totally Different -- People Fight Back -- Language of War -- Crime Wars as Propaganda -- Victims: All Dressed Up but No Place to Go? -- Recent Legislative Policy -- Evaluating Victim Policy -- An Alternative Politics -- Taking the Victims' Movement for a Ride -- Which Victims' Movement? -- The Official Victims' Movement -- The Hidden Victims' Movements -- Limits of the Victims' Movement -- Toward a New Victims' Movement? -- Wars on Drugs as Wars on Victims -- Drug Wars for Whom? -- Drug Wars as Propaganda Wars -- Drug War Victims -- Who's Winning the Drug War? -- Peace, Not War -- Do Victims Want Revenge? -- The Politics of Punishment -- Conflicting Theories of Victim Participation -- Evaluating Sentencing Participation -- Victim-Based Alternatives -- Controlling Victimization: War or Peace? -- Crime, Violence, and War -- Disturbing the Peace -- Resisting Peace -- A Peace Movement Against Crime -- New Culture, Less Victimization -- Victims Still -- A More Peaceful Culture -- Less Victimization.
- ISBN
- 0803950527
- 9780803950528
- 0803950535
- 9780803950535
- LCCN
- 93006511
- OCLC
- ocm27266214
- 27266214
- SCSB-825041
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library