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
How Baseball Sold U.S. Foreign Policy & Promoted the American Way Abroad
Mystery Fiction
A San Francisco murder mystery set in the worlds of academia, baseball and the Catholic Church
Author Events
Listing of upcoming bookstore appearances
Non-Fiction
Baseball as a mirror of American society
How U.S. victim policy serves official interests.
Strategies for peace in the post-Cold War era.
American criminal justice from a victim perspective.
A comprehensive guide to issues, groups, and literature
The utopian tradition in the early twenty-first century
Victim compensation as symbolic politics
Introduction to American government instructor's manual
Other Writings
Writing my debut mystery novel
Listing of academic essays and articles
Short works on baseball
Non-Fiction Journal
A transnational quarterly of peace, human rights and development
Short Story
What we don't know about the Russian revolutionary
Works in Progress
The Empire Strikes Out; Amsterdamned; Sold on Murder; The Legacy of Baseball
Recommended
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