Victims of the System: Crime Victims and Compensation in American Politics and Criminal Justice

by Robert Elias

This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves. Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows how programs differ when compensation is viewed essentially as welfare and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 087855470X
• ISBN13: 9780878554706
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 325 Pages
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"