Victims and victimization : a reader /
Brian Williams and Hannah Goodman Chong.
- Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill Open University Press, 2009.
- xviii, 372 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Readings in criminology and criminal justice .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This reader looks at why people or groups of people are victims of crime, why some crimes go unreported, why victims respond in the way that they do, what the state can do to stop certain groups becoming victims and how victims can be looked after post the event.