Trends and issues in victimology (Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2008)
Includes bibliographical references
Foreword - Gerd F. Kirchhoff -- - Editors' introduction -- - Between perception and victimization : trends and issues in victimology - Natti Ronel, K. Jaishankar & Moshe Bensimon -- - pt. I. Justice for victims -- - Ideology and the behavior of perpetrators and victims of violence - Noach (Norman) Milgram -- - An informal approach to delinquents and their victims : an alternative to standard punishment - Uri Timor -- - Family-group conferencing in Israel : the voices of victims following restorative justice proceedings - Esther Schachaf-Friedman & Uri Timor -- - Restitution : a multilateral penal approach - Sharon Aharoni-Goldenberg and Yael Wilchek-Aviad -- - Malimath Committee and crime victims : resurrecting the forgotten voices of the Indian criminal justice system - K. Jaishankar, P. Madhava Soma Sundaram & Debarati Halder -- - pt. II. Issues of sexual victimization -- - Reclaiming power? Women victims of sexual violence and the civil legal system
- Yifat Bitton -- - Sexual assault victims : empowerment of re-victimization? The need for a therapeutic jurisprudence model - Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg -- - Blaming victims and bystanders in the context of rape - Inna Levy & Sarah Ben-David -- - Victims of sexual harassment in modern work places in India - P. Madhava Soma Sundaram, K. Jaishankar & Megha Desai -- - The relationship betwen childhood victimization, drug abuse and PTSD and adult delinquency in a prison population - Sarah Ben-David & Ili Goldberg -- - Illustratied examples of victimization -- - Alienation and emotional distress among relocated youth following the Gaza disengagement - Avital Laufer & Mally Shechory -- - Criminal victimization and social networks in India - Nandini Rai -- - Soldier suicides : a victimological perspective - Ehud Bodner -- - A survey of stalking victims in India - K. Jaishankar, Megha Desai & P. Madhava Soma Sundaram -- - Abused Druze women's strategies of resistance
- Brenda Geiger -- - Epilogue - Leslie Sebba -- - Scientific committee of reviewers -- - About the editors -- - About the authors -- - Subject index
This book focuses on varied practical and theoretical issues of the science of victims, Victimology. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by leading victimologists, and fifteen original essays by leading as well as by young international victimologists, Tren