To Be a Victim: Encounters with Crime and Injustice

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Why the Concern for Victims?....Pages 3-23
Front Matter....Pages 25-25
Survivors of Crime....Pages 27-42
Thoughts About Victims of Crime and Injustice and the Nature of Justice....Pages 43-52
The Concept of Victimhood....Pages 53-62
Front Matter....Pages 63-65
Victim Compensation....Pages 67-86
Street-Crime Victim Compensation, Retributive Justice, and Social-Contract Theory....Pages 87-99
Rescuing Victims—from Social Theory....Pages 101-116
A Systems Science Approach to Crime, Criminal Justice, and Victim Justice....Pages 117-140
African-Americans, Crime Victimization, and Political Obligations....Pages 141-159
The Rights of Child Abuse Victims....Pages 161-169
Victimology and Blaming the Victim....Pages 171-177
Victims in Seventeenth-Century Witchcraft Trials....Pages 179-196
Perpetrators of Violent Crime as Potential Victims of Research in Prison....Pages 197-215
Computer Crime and Victim Justice....Pages 217-234
Patient-Nurse and Nurse-Patient Abuse....Pages 235-247
Justice for Health Consumers and Providers....Pages 249-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-269
Victims of Genocide....Pages 271-294
Weapons Control Laws....Pages 295-314
Behind Barbed Wire....Pages 315-332
The Law and Morality of War Crimes Trials....Pages 333-356
Front Matter....Pages 357-357
Victims and Arms in Classical Legal Philosophy....Pages 359-369
Is Gun Control Legislation a Solution for Protecting Victims?....Pages 371-378
Why Retributivists Should Care about Deterrence....Pages 379-394
The Controversy over Shared Responsibility....Pages 395-408
Preferring Punishment of Criminals over Providing for Victims....Pages 409-421
Front Matter....Pages 423-423
What Hope for Victims?....Pages 425-438
Back Matter....Pages 439-481