Current Perspectives Reading for InfoTrac College Edition: Victimology Book

Preface     vii
Victims' Plight     1
Saving the Victim: Recuperating the Language of the Victim and Reassessing Global Feminism   Anne McLeer     3
Law Aims to Help Victims of Identity Theft   Carol Demare     19
Stolen Identity, Legal Nightmare: A Hollywood Woman Finds that Victims of Identity Theft Can be Treated Like Criminals Themselves   Erika Bolstad     23
Domestic Violence: Risk Factors and Outcomes   Daniel C. Berrios   Deborah Grady     27
Woman Accused of Identity Theft: As a Warning to Potential Victims, Police Displayed Costly Items They Had Seized   Barbara Boyer     35
ID Theft Shocks Victims   David Doege     37
Statistics and Victimization Rates     39
Woman's story gives life to statistics   Rebecca Voelker     41
Victims Identified in South Omaha Shooting   Lynn Safranek   Andrew J. Nelson     43
Murder Rate Increased in New Orleans   Donya C. Arias     45
Homicides Are Up Just a Bit in Seattle   Sara Jean Green     47
The New Math On Crime   Will Sullivan   Carol S. Hook     51
Three Die in Shootings as Bronx Murder Rate Climbs   EmilyVasquez     57
How Victims are Handled Throughout the System     61
Dollars Boost Crime Fighters: Albany Police, County Prosecutors Get {dollar}1.3M from State Program   Jordan Carleo-Evangelist     63
Prosecutor Fights for More Funding   Zachary Gorchow     67
False Crime Reports Tax Resources: Prosecutors Cracking Down   Dan Cortez     69
Police Look for Victims of Lantana Child Porn Suspect   Jerome Burdi     71
New Evidence Failed to Help, Gotti's Prosecutors Discovered   Timothy Williams     73
The Effect of Law Enforcement on Victims     75
Doon Case: Victims' Kin Face Police Apathy   Jaskiran Chopra     77
Understanding Crime Rates: On the Interactions between the Rational Choices of Victims and Offenders   Jan J.M. van Dijk     79
Sexual Assault Suspect in Custody: Man Accused of Raping a Mother and Molesting Her Son   Melanie Carroll     99
DNA Rules Out Man Once Suspected of Rape: One Man is Freed and Another Arrested in August Attacks   Andrew Tran     101
Making Criminals Pay for Justice: Proposal Would Fund Rape-Victim Programs   Bill Laitner     103
Protection Orders Elusive   Valerie Kalfrin     107
Black Americans Were Victims in 15 Percent of All Nonfatal Violent Crimes and 49Percent of All Homicides During 2005$dU.S. Department of Justice     111
Life Sentence: Co-Victims of Homicide   Bruce Gross     113
Fighting Child Abuse: Lawmakers Back Stiffer Sentencing Guidelines   Jonathan Cribbs     125
InfoMarks: Make Your Mark     127