Imagining the Victim of Crime by Sandra Walklate

Imagining the Victim of Crime by Sandra Walklate

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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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Imagining the Victim of Crime by Sandra Walklate

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.
Sandra Walklate is currently Eleanor Rathbone Chair of Sociology at the University of Liverpool having held previous posts at Manchester Metropolitan University, Keele, Salford and Liverpool John Moores. Her current publications include Imagining the Victim of Crime (2007) Open University Press/MacGraw-Hill and an edited collection with Gabe Mythen entitled Beyond the Risk Society: Critical Reflections on Risk and Human Security (2006) also with the Open University Press/MacGraw-Hill. She is currently compiling The Handbook of Victims and Victimology for Willan Publishing.
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ISBN 13 9780335217274
ISBN 10 0335217273
Title Imagining the Victim of Crime
Author Sandra Walklate
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Open University Press
Year published 2006-11-16
Number of pages 224
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.