Imagining the Victim of Crime (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780335217274)

This book situates the contemporary preoccupation with criminal victimisation within the broader socio-cultural changes of the last twenty five years. In so doing, it addresses not only the policy possibilities that have been generated as a consequence of those changes but also concerns itself with the ability of victimology to help make sense of this change. Written in the post 9/11 context, this book considers the efficacy of theory and policy relating to questions of victimhood to accommodate the current political and cultural climate and offers a critical understanding of both. It adopts an explicitly cross-cultural position on these questions. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the problems and possibilities posed by criminal victimisation understood in the broadest terms.

Author: Sandra Walklate
ISBN-10: 0335217273
ISBN-13: 9780335217274
Publisher: Open University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2007
Pages: 202
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.95h x 6.23w x 0.50d