Table of Contents
Why the concern for victims? / Diane Sank, Brian Sank Firschein -- Survivors of crime / Marlene A. Young --Thoughts about victims of crime and injustice and the nature of justice / Max Hamburgh -- The concept of victimhood / James E. Bayley -- Victim compensation /Rodolphe J. A. de Seife -- Street-crime victim compensation, retributive justice, and social-contract theory / Gilbert S. Fell -- Rescuing victims--from social theory / Tibor R. Machan -- A systems science approach to crime, criminal justice, and victim justice / John T. Chu / African-Americans, crime victimization, and political obligations / Bill Lawson -- The rights of child abuse victims /Marie-Louise Friquegnon, Willavene Wolf -- Victimology and blaming the victim /Susan R. Peterson -- Victims in seventeenth-century witchcraft trials / Albert G. Hess -- Perpetrators of violent crime as potential victims of research in prison / Mary Ellen Waithe --Computer crime and victim justice / John T. Chu --Patient-nurse and nurse-patient abuse / Elsie L. Bandman and Bertram Bandman -- Justice for health consumers and providers / Bertram Bandman, Elsie L. Bandman -- Victims of Genocide / Burton M. Leiser --Weapons control laws / David I. Caplan -- Behind barbed wire / Michio Kaku --The law and morality of war crimes trials / Sander Lee -- Victims and arms in classical legal philosophy / Stephen P. Halbrook -- Is gun control legislation a solution for protecting victims? / Joseph G. Grassi -- Why retributivists should care about deterrence / Douglas N. Husak -- The controversy over shared responsibility / Andrew Karmen -- Preferring punishment of criminals over providing for victims / Roger Wertheimer -- What hope for victims? / Diane Sank.