Victimology and crime prevention are growing, interrelated areas cutting across several disciplines. Victimology examines victims of all sorts of criminal activity, from domestic abuse, to street violence, to victims in the workplacewho lose jobs and pensions due to malfeasance by corporate executives. Crime prevention is an important companion to victimology because it offers insight and techniques to prevent situations that lead to crime and attempts to offer ideas and means for mitigating or minimizing the potential for victimization. In many ways, the two fields have developed along parallel yet separate paths,and the literature on both has been scattered across disciplines as varied associology, law and criminology, public health and medicine, political scienceand public policy, economics, psychology and human services, and more. The Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention provides a comprehensive reference work bringing together such dispersed knowledge as it outlines and discusses the status of victims within the criminal justice system and topics of deterring and preventing victimization in the first place and responding to victims needs. Two volumes containing approximately 375 signed entries provide userswith the most authoritative and comprehensive reference resource available onvictimology and crime prevention, both in terms of breadth and depth of coverage.
- ISBN: 978-1-4129-6047-2
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 1120
- Fecha Publicación: 30/04/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 2
- Idioma: Inglés