Robert Elias

Nominated for:
National Jesuit Book Award (1995)

Michael Harrington Award, Caucus for A New Political Science (1994)

Academy of Criminal Justice Studies Book Award (1994)

Edward Sutherland Book Award, American Society of Criminology (1994)

C. Wright Mills Book Award, American Sociological Association (1994)

Outstanding Scholar Award, Society for the Study of Social Problems (1994)


CRITICAL ACCLAIM

"In Victims Still, Elias demonstrates again that he is a preeminent scholar in the field of victimology. This work provides a unique, provocative, and elucidative account of the politicization of the victims' movement as well as the social and political ramifications of the 'get tough' crime policies and enforcement strategies of the 1980s. Dr. Elias raises serious and challenging questions about the currency of conventional responses to crime victims and offenders. Victims Still should be required reading for crime victim researchers and program practitioners. This book offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the causes of crime and violence in America. Professor Elias's solutions to the crime problem are sweeping and progressive."

- Arthur J. Lurigio, Loyola University of Chicago


CONTENTS

1. Still Victims After All These Years

2. Media Amnesia: Abetting Victimization

3. Victims: All Dressed Up But No Place to Go?

4. Taking the Victims' Movement for A Ride

5. Wars on Drugs as Wars on Victims

6. Do Victims Want Revenge?

7. Controlling Victimization: War or Peace?

8. New Culture, Less Victimization