The Politics of Victimization:
Victims, Victomology & Human Rights

Nominated for:

Stephen Schafer Award for Outstanding Victim Research (1987)

Denis Carrol Prize, International Society of Criminology (1987)

Lesley T. Wilkens Book Award (1988)

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award (1988)

Academy Criminal Justice Sciences Outstanding Book Award(1988)


CRITICAL ACCLAIM:

“A pathbreaking study.”
- Richard Falk, Princeton University

“One of the most impressive reviews of modern developments in victimization available anywhere.”
- Herman Schwendinger, State University of New York

“The most comprehensive and literate general treatment of victimology available . . . The book establishes Elias as a major figure in the field of victimology.”
- Gary T. Marx, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


CONTENTS

1. Hidden Dimensions of Victimization:
Victims, Victimology and Human Rights

2. Rising Stars: Victims and Victimology

3. False Images: The Social Reality of Victimization

4. Casting Blame: The Sources of Victimization

5. Handling Pain: The Impact of Victimization

6. Adding Insult to Injury: Victims and Law Enforcement

7. Victim Advocacy: The Functions of Doing Good

8. Oppression: Victims and Human Rights

9. The Politics of Victimization

Selected Works

Latest Book
The Empire Strikes Out
How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy & Promoted the American Way Abroad
Mystery Fiction
The Deadly Tools of Ignorance: A Debs Kafka Mystery
A San Francisco murder mystery set in the worlds of academia, baseball and the Catholic Church
Author Events
Book Readings
Listing of upcoming bookstore appearances
Non-Fiction
Baseball & the American Dream: Race, Class, Gender & the National Pastime
Baseball as a mirror of American society
Victims Still: The Political Manipulation of Crime Victims
How U.S. victim policy serves official interests.
Rethinking Peace
Strategies for peace in the post-Cold War era.
The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victomology & Human Rights
American criminal justice from a victim perspective.
The Peace Resource Book
A comprehensive guide to issues, groups, and literature
The Utopian Impulse
The utopian tradition in the early twenty-first century
Victims of the System: Crime Victims & Compensation in American Politics & Criminal Justice
Victim compensation as symbolic politics
American Democracy Debated
Introduction to American government instructor's manual
Other Writings
"Field of Dreams"
Writing my debut mystery novel
Academic Essays
Listing of academic essays and articles
Baseball Essays
Short works on baseball
Non-Fiction Journal
Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice
A transnational quarterly of peace, human rights and development
Short Story
"The Secret Life of Leon Trotsky"
What we don't know about the Russian revolutionary
Works in Progress
Books in Progress
The Empire Strikes Out; Amsterdamned; Sold on Murder; The Legacy of Baseball
Recommended
Good Books
Fiction and non-fiction books I recommend