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

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

Elias, Robert

Paperback

CriminologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 0195039815
ISBN13: 9780195039818
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 18 1986
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.20
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.36 Depth: 8.28
Language: English
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.

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