Victims Books

New and Published Books

1. Gender, Violence, and Law

   By Melanie Randall

   Series: Routledge Research in Gender and Society

   The law has been the major site of advocacy, reform efforts and social change in relation to a variety of complex social problems. Gendered violence is one of them. After nearly three decades of advocacy and law reform, what can we understand about current legal responses to, and engagement with,...

   Published May 14th 2013 by Routledge
2. A Restorative Justice Reader

   2nd Edition

   Edited by Gerry Johnstone

   A Restorative Justice Reader brings together carefully chosen extracts from the most important and influential contributions to the literature of restorative justice, accompanying these with an informative commentary providing context and explanation. It includes works by both well known advocates...

   Published December 11th 2012 by Willan
3. Policing Global Movement

   Tourism, Migration, Human Trafficking, and Terrorism

   Edited by S. Caroline Taylor, Daniel Joseph Torpy, Dilip K. Das

   The movement of humans across borders is increasing exponentially—some for benign reasons, others nefarious, including terrorism, human trafficking, and people smuggling. Consequently, the policing of human movement within and across borders has been and remains a significant concern to nations....

   Published September 23rd 2012 by CRC Press
4. Investigating Missing Children Cases

   A Guide for First Responders and Investigators

   By Donald F. Sprague

   Time is an abducted child’s worst enemy. Seventy-four percent of abducted children who are murdered are killed within three hours of their abduction. It takes, on the average, two hours for a parent to report a child missing. This gives responders only one hour to get an investigation up and...

   Published September 17th 2012 by CRC Press
5. Human Trafficking

   Exploring the International Nature, Concerns, and Complexities

   Edited by John Winterdyk, Benjamin Perrin, Philip Reichel

   Human trafficking is a crime that undermines fundamental human rights and a broader sense of global order. It is an atrocity that transcends borders—with some regions known as exporters of trafficking victims and others recognized as destination countries. Edited by three global experts and...

   Published December 4th 2011 by CRC Press
6. Restorative Justice

   Ideas, Values, Debates, 2nd Edition

   By Gerry Johnstone

   Restorative justice is one of the most talked about developments in the field of crime and justice. Its advocates and practitioners argue that state punishment, society's customary response to crime, neither meets the needs of crime victims nor prevents reoffending. In its place, they suggest,...

   Published September 21st 2011 by Routledge
7. International Handbook of Victimology

   Edited by Shlomo Giora Shoham, Paul Knepper, Martin Kett

   In the nearly four decades since the First International Symposium on Victimology convened in Jerusalem in 1973, some concepts and themes have continued to hold a prominent place in the literature, while new ones have also emerged. Exploring enduring topics such as conceptions of victimhood,...

   Published February 22nd 2010 by CRC Press
8. Criminal Abuse of Women and Children

   An International Perspective

   Edited by Obi N.I. Ebbe, Dilip K. Das

   The abuse of women and children transcends geographical boundaries as well as economic, cultural, religious, political, and social divisions. Comprised of the work of more than 20 academics and practitioners from around the world, Criminal Abuse of Women and Children documents the atrocities that...

   Published July 19th 2009 by CRC Press