Victims and Victimisation : A Reader

Victimology is an important area of study in criminology as an academic subject, but is also taken seriously by governments and agencies in their assessment of criminal behaviour and their policies on crime. Victimology looks at why people or groups of people are victims of crime, why some crimes go unreported, why victims respond in the way that they do, what the state can do to stop certain groups becoming victims and how victims can be looked after post the event. This Reader brings together some of the classic readings in criminology, dating back to the origins of victimology as a subject. It will then include more recent texts which will map out policies, religious effects and implications, corporate and state crime and concepts around the theory of victimology (a section suggested by the readers). As with other Readers the book will have an editorial introduction to the volume and an introduction to each thematic section.