This eBook+ version includes the following enhancements:

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  pop-up definitions to key terms and abbreviations

  
  

  live links to web activities, allowing readers to expand their knowledge of the principles and applications of victimology without needing to leave the page

  
  

This book covers the scope of crime victims’ suffering in the U.S., offering a history of victims and the measurement of victimization, an explanation of the victim’s role in the criminal justice process, and a recounting of the issues crime victims face as a result of crime and the criminal justice process. Doerner and Lab, both well-regarded scholars, write compellingly about how the current criminal’s justice system can be transformed into a victim’s justice system. Theory is woven together with the description of each topic, and specific examples illustrate each point. The book goes on to address the full impact of victimization, and a final section details specific types of victimization, ranging from violent crimes, including child and elder abuse, to property crime, to crime in the school and in the workplace. The authors explain how obstacles hinder the pursuit of justice, and provide significant policy and programming suggestions to render the system more victim-friendly.

Appropriate for undergraduate as well as early graduate courses in Criminology, Criminal Justice, Sociology, and Justice Studies programs, this book is supplemented with online self-test quizzes for students and an instructor package with test bank, PowerPoint lecture slides, and sample syllabus.