The Politics of Victimization: Victims, Victimology, and Human Rights - Softcover

Elias, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0195039815 ISBN 13: 9780195039818

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 1986

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Elias proposes a new definition of victimology that transcends current official and social perceptions of victimization and its sources.

About the Author:

Robert Elias is at University of San Francisco.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 1986
• ISBN 10: 0195039815
• ISBN 13: 9780195039818
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408