The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology, and Human Rights / Edition 1

by Robert Elias

Overview

This useful text provides a comprehensive introductory overview of the study of victims and victimization. Victimization is here considered as a reflection of American society. Taking a broad perspective, Elias argues that the study of victimology requires more than merely analyzing criminal justice; it requires linking it to much wider social, political and economic relations—especially to the American political economy. This study rejects the official definition of crime and victimization and establishes a relationship between victimology and human rights, thus advocating a "new" victimology which embraces victims of both crime and repression. Elias proposes that since much crime arises in response to various forms of oppression, a society unconcerned with human rights violations and its victims can likewise provide little help for crime victims.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195039818
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	12/18/1986
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	408
Product dimensions:	8.25(w) x 5.31(h) x 1.10(d)