Imagining the Victim of Crime
- ISBN-10
- 0335230342
- ISBN-13
- 9780335230341
- Category
- Law
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006-10-16
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
- Author
- Sandra Walklate
Description
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.
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