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This book situates the contemporary preoccupation with criminal victimisation within the broader socio-cultural changes of the last twenty five years. In so doing, it addresses not only the policy possibilities that have been generated as a consequence of those changes but also concerns itself with the ability of victimology to help make sense of this change. Written in the post 9/11 context, this book considers the efficacy of theory and policy relating to questions of victimhood to accommodate the current political and cultural climate and offers a critical understanding of both. It adopts an explicitly cross-cultural position on these questions. It will be vital reading for anyone interested in the problems and possibilities posed by criminal victimisation understood in the broadest terms.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780335217274
  • ISBN-10: 0335217273
  • Publisher: Open University Press
  • Publish Date: February 2007
  • Dimensions: 8.95 x 6.23 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.74 pounds
  • Page Count: 202

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