Victims of the System: Crime Victims & Compensation in American Politics & Criminal Justice

NOMINATED FOR:

Leslie T. Wilkens Book Award (1984)

Stephen Schafer Award for Outstanding Victim Research (1984)

Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award (1985)


CONTENTS

1. Introduction

2. Historical Development of Victim Compensation

3. Research Design

4. Characteristics of Violent Crime Victims

5. Victims in the Criminal Process

6. Impact of the Criminal Process

7. The Victim-Compensation Boards

8. Officials in the Compensation Process

9. Victims in the Compensation Process

10. Impact of Victim Compensation

11. Conclusion: The Politics of Victim Compensation

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
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
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