Helping Crime Victims: Research, Policy, and Practice

by Albert R. Roberts, Arlene Bowers. Andrews

Overview

Prepared for use by informed citizens, victims' solicitors, social workers, criminal justice administrators, government officials and legislators, Helping Crime Victims offers the reader practical ideas and realistic strategies in the form of procedural guides and workable programme components and services that seem effective in meeting the needs of crime victims.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803934689
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	04/01/1990
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

D.S.W. from U. of Maryland. Chairman of Administration of Justice Department. Author or co-author of ten books, many in second or third editions, among them: Moraskin/Roberts: Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century 2^ND (PH, 1998, 444 pp. $55.00), Roberts: Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research 2/e (O.U.P., 2000), Roberts ed. Juvenile Justice: Policies, Programs, and Services 2/e (Wadsworth, 1998, 300 pp. $45.95) He has also published two other books with Sage:

• Crisis Intervention and Time-Limited Cognitive Treatment - pub’d.1/95, sales to date of 2,585/$61,662 (2,290 paper/$50,497)
• Helping Crime Victims: Research, Policy and Practice – pub’d 6/90, sales to date of 3,031/$57,325 (2,425 paper/$40,943)

Table of Contents

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Introduction and Overview of Victimology and Victim Services
PART TWO: NATIONAL SURVEY OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF 184 VICTIM SERVICE AND WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS
Background Functions and Services of Victim Service and Witness Assistance Programs
Specialized Services for Elderly Crime Victims
Organizational Issues
Victim
Witness Programs
Self-Evaluation of the Strengths, Problems, and Needed Changes
Model Victim Service and Witness Assistance Programs
PART THREE: PROGRAMS, RECOVERY SERVICES, AND REMEDIES FOR CRIME VICTIMS
The University and the Development of Victim Services in Orange County, California - Arnold Binder and Harriet Bemus
Responding to Missing and Murdered Children in America - Eric Hickey
A Model for Crisis Intervention with Battered Women and Their Children - Albert R Roberts and Beverly Schenkman Roberts
Crisis and Recovery Services for Family Violence Survivors - Arlene Bowers Andrews
Restitution to Crime Victims as a Presumptive Requirement in Criminal Case Dispositions - Cathryn Jo Rosen and Alan T Harland