NCJ Number
178673
Editor(s)
L. J. Moriarty,
R. A. Jerin
Date Published
1998
Length
303 pages
Annotation
This book examines the impact of criminal acts on individuals and society and attempts to provide a foundation for understanding the complexities of crime victimization.
Abstract
The book’s 16 chapters discuss: (1) community fear across multilingual populations; (2) fear of crime, age, and victimization and relationships and changes over time; (3) student fear of crime on a small southeastern university campus; (4) patterns and reactions to teacher victimization; (5) the relationship between carrying weapons to school and victimization; (6) the role of alcohol in self-reported victimizations; (7) legal, statutory, and administrative responses to campus crime; (8) witness assistance programs in North Carolina and Virginia; (9) victims’ satisfaction with prosecutors and victim advocates; (10) Virginia and North Carolina prototype child representation models; (11) model approaches to building victim support in the church; (12) potential conflicts between victims’ rights and criminal defendants’ due process rights and the superiority of civil court remedies; (13) implications of community notification requirement within sexual offender legislation; (14) sexual harassment; (15) stalking laws and related methods of victim protection; and (16) the female stalker. Cases and statutes, discussion questions, tables, references, indexes