Victimizing Vulnerable Groups Images of Uniquely High-Risk Crime Targets

Subjects:

• Crime & Justice » Victimology
• Women's Studies » Women's Issues in Politics & Law

Reviews:

• This is a fantastic book that addresses a number of stigmatized and, unfortunately, too often victimized groups. The book notably includes a handful of articles highlighting groups that have had their fair share of "journal time" (albeit not as much as warranted), such as minorities and the elderly. However, the volume also includes articles on such unseen and unwritten-about victim groups as international students, citizens of underdeveloped countries, and nonhuman animals....Coston definitely succeeds in bringing together stories of a variety of vulnerable individuals and demonstrating the need for more research in all victimology areas.
  —Criminal Justice Review .

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