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Victimizing Vulnerable Groups Images of Uniquely High-Risk Crime Targets
Charisse Tia Maria Coston, ed.,
ISBN: 0-275-96614-3
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-96614-0
408 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 7/30/2004
List Price: $76.95 (UK Sterling Price: £53.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Victimization varies across the population. Selected characteristics of some individuals and groups make them more vulnerable to crime than others. This is the first reader to focus on the most vulnerable among us. Based in science and free of statistical jargon, this collection goes beyond cursory explanations to examine victimization experiences among members of uniquely susceptible crime targets. Such groups include: homeless women; pregnant drug addicts; inmates with H.I.V.; international students; residents of developing nations; and non-human animals.

Coston identifies twenty-five sub-groups and uses a multi-disciplinary approach to provide readers with important background information, an outline of fundamental issues, and a variety of particular germinal ideas. Contributors present a well-rounded view of the nature of the problems faced by each group, including critiques of past and current initiatives and suggestions for practical policy strategies.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
    About the Contributors
    Foreward by Freda Adler
    Introduction
    Multipli-Disadvantaged Groups
    Fear of Crime among Vulnerable Populations: Homeless Women by Charisse T. M. Coston and James O. Finckenauer
    Worries about Crime: Rank-Ordering Survival Concerns among Urban Transient Females by Charisse T. M. Coston
    Personal and Situational Characteristics of Custodial African American Grandmothers by Dorothy Ruiz, Carolyn Zhu, and Martha Crowder
    Sexual Ecology: Aids in the Black Community by Leon E. Pettiway
    The Persecution and Ill-Treatment of African Americans in the Healthcare System in the United States by Robert L. Bing III
    Exploiting the Aged in a Familial Setting by Anita Neuberger-Blowers
    Fear of Crime: It's Meaning in the Lives of Elderly Women by Kate Hanrahan and John J. Gibbs
    "Where are we now Cesar Chavez?": The Unique Vulnerabilities and Victimization Experiences of Mexican Immigrants in the United States by David A. Jenks and Catherine A. Jenks
    The Undeserving Vulnerable
    The Intersecting Identities of Being Black,Female, Crack-Addicted, and Pregnant: Vunerabilities, Victimization Experiencees, and Criminalization by Paula K. Rector and Nancy Wonders
    Disregarding Harm: An Examination of the Vulnerabilities of Youth Incarcerated in Adult Correctional Facilities by Pauline K. Brennan
    Criminal Victimization of Prostitutes: Empirical Support for the Lifestyle/Exposure Model by Charisse T. M. Coston and Lee E. Ross
    AIDS, Violence and Matters of Respect: Family and Peer Relations of African-American and Latino Convicted Felons by Laura T. Fishman
    The Uniquely, Uniquely Vulnerable
    Fear of Crime among Foreign Students in the United States by Charisse T. M. Coston
    Victims in Underdeveloped Countries by Diane C. Bates and Joanne Ardovini-Brooker
    Low Crime Rates in Bahrain: Islamic Social Control-Testing the Theory of Synnomie by Charisse T. M. Coston and Adel A. Helal
    The Teacher, Actor even the Candlestick Maker, Victims All-A Look At Government Sanctioned Victimizatioin during the Red Scare of the 1950s by Babette M. Protz
    Non-Human Animals as Victims: Victimology and the Animal Rights Movement by Bonnie Berry
    The Exploitation, Victimization, and Unique Vulnerablitites of Native Americans by Courtney C. Petersen
    Removal of Southwest Michigan Potawatomi: Governmental Drimes of Oppression and Cultural Genocide by Linda M. Robyn
    The Victimization of Women: A Theoretical Perspective on Dowry Deaths in India by Mangai Natarajan
    Victims of Airport Screener Assaults: Terrorism and U. S. Capitalism at Work by Bonnie Berry
    The Differentially-Vulnerable
    Social Distance and Vulnerability: The Case of Sexual Orientation by Garofalo and Bryant
    The Perilous Existence of Children in Circuses, Carnivals, and Freak Shows by Amit R. Patel
    Discredited Victims of Childhood Violence by Harold Pepinsky
    Anti-Abortion Stalkers by Charlotte A. Dudley
About the Author: CHARISSE TIA MARIA COSTON is Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She received her Ph.D. from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She sits on the editorial boards of Criminology and Public Policy, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Creative Sociology, and The Journal of Critical Criminology. She has published a number of articles in journals such as The Victimologist, Deviant Behavior, and The International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice, along with book chapters and numerous book reviews.
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