The Plight of Crime Victims in Modern Society

Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - PROLOGUE: ON COUNTING VICTIMS - A Comparison of National Crime Surveys; R.Block - ON SOME NEGLECTED TYPES OF VICTIMIZATION - Victims of Abuse of Power: The David/Goliath Syndrome; E.A.Fattah - Victims of Extreme State Terrorism; R.Corrado - Victims of Terrorism: Dimensions of the Victim Experience; E.E.Flynn - The Victimization of Canada's Natives: The Consequences of Socio-Cultural Deprivation; C.T.Griffiths et al - ON WOMEN AND CHILDREN AS VICTIMS - Women as Victims; L.Vaughan-Evans et al - Victimhood of Battered Women: Psychological and Criminal Justice Perspectives; D.Dutton - Victimological Aspects of Child Abuse; E.A.Fattah - Child Abuse and the Courts: Finnish and Swedish Experiences; M.Korpilahti - ON RESPONSE TO, AND CONSEQUENCES OF, VICTIMIZATION - Victim-Offender Dynamics in Stranger to Stranger Violence: Robbery and Rape; R.Block - The Needs of Crime Victims; I.Waller - Crime Reporting and Services for Victims; E.Ziegenhagen - ON SERVICES FOR CRIME VICTIMS - Compensation by Offenders in Canada: A Victim's Right?; A.Thorvaldson - Legal Aid to Crime Victims; S.Hillenbrand - Victim-Witness Programs; S.Hillenbrand - Family Violence and Changing Ideologies in the Shelter Movement; T.Peltoniemi - EPILOGUE FOR A CHARTER OF RIGHTS FOR CRIME VICTIMS; A.Normandeau - Index