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.
- ISBN10 0195039807
- ISBN13 9780195039801
- Publish Date 18 December 1986
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 14 March 1996
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 408
- Language English