This is the first accessible, succinct text to provide definitions and explanations of key terms and concepts relating to the expanding field of crime, harm and victimisation. Written by a wide range of experts, it includes theories, ideas and case studies relating to victims of conventional crime and victims outside the remit of criminal law. It encapsulates the domestic and international nature, extent and measurement of victims of crime and harm, together with responses to victims and victimisation as a result of conventional, corporate and state crimes and harms.
As part of the Companion series, entries are presented in a user-friendly A-Z format with clear links to related entries and further reading, allowing easy navigation for both students and practitioners. Filling a gap in the market, this is a good source and quick reference point for undergraduates studying a variety of courses in criminology, criminal justice, victimology and other related disciplines.
Table of Content
Editor’s Introduction;
Companion entries A-Z;
List of campaign groups and their website URLs;
Legislation and Policy Index.
About the author
Jo Turner is senior lecturer at the University of Chester. She lecturers in criminology but her research spans the disciplines of criminology and history. Having being awarded her doctorate from Keele University, Jo has continued to research and publish around the themes of female offending in the past, women’s treatment by the criminal justice system in the past, and outcomes for women in the past following their contact with that system – much of which Jo has written and published on.
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