Victimizing vulnerable groups
Subtitle: images of uniquely high-risk crime targets
By: edited by Charisse Tia Maria Coston ; foreword by Freda Adler.
Contributors: Coston, Charisse Tia Maria, 1958-
Series: Praeger series in criminology and crime control policy
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Westport, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
Subjects: Victims of crimes -- Government policy; People with social disabilities -- Crimes against; Minorities -- Crimes against; Older people -- Crimes against; Women -- Crimes against; Abused children; Animal welfare
Other titles: High-risk crime targets.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fear of crime among vulnerable populations : homeless women / Charisse T.M. Coston and James O. Finckenauer; title: Worries about crime : rank-ordering survival concerns among urban transient females / Charisse T.M. Coston; title: Personal and situational characteristics of custodial African-American grandmothers / Dorothy S. Ruiz, Carolyn Wei Zhu, and Martha R. Crowther; title: Race and crime : vulnerability at the margins / Leon E. Pettiway; title: The persecution and ill-treatment of African Americans in the health-care system in the United States / Robert L. Bing III; title: Exploiting the aged in familial settings / Anita Neuberger Blowers; title: Fear of crime : its meaning in the lives of elderly women / Kate Hanrahan and John J. Gibbs; title: Where are you now, Cesar Chavez? The unique vulnerabilities and victimization experiences of Mexican immigrants in the United States / David A. Jenks and Catherine A. Jenks; title: Intersecting identities and pregnant drug-users : victimization and vulnerabilities to criminalization / Paula K. Rector and Nancy A. Wonders; title: Disregarding harm : an examination of the vulnerabilities of youth incarcerated in adult correctional facilities / Pauline K. Brennan; title: Prostitutes as prey : empirical support for the lifestyle/exposure model as an explanation of personal victimization and worries about crime / Charisse T.M. Coston and Lee E. Ross; title: AIDS, violence, and matters of respect : family and peer relations of African-American and Latino convicted felons / Laura T. Fishman; title: Worries about crime among foreign students studying in the United States : a comparative study / Charisse T.M. Coston; title: Victims in underdeveloped countries / Diane C. Bates and Joanne Ardovini-Brooker; title: Low crime rates in Bahrain : Islamic social control; title: testing the theory of "synnomie" / Charisse T.M. Coston and Adel A. Helal; title: Teacher, actor, candlestick maker : victims all looking at government-sanctioned victimization of its citizenry / Babette M. Protz; title: Nonhuman animals as victims : victimology and the animal-rights movement / Bonnie Berry; title: The exploitation, victimization, and unique vulnerabilities of native Americans / Courtney C. Petersen; title: Removal of the southwest Michigan Potawatomi : government crimes of oppression and cultural genocide / Linda Robyn; title: Victimization of women : a theoretical perspective on dowry deaths in India / Mangai Natarajan; title: Sexual victimization by airport screeners, post-9/11 : terrorism, sexism, and capitalism at work / Bonnie Berry; title: Social distance and vulnerability : the case of sexual orientation / James Garofalo and Jane Bryant; title: The perilous existence of children as freaks in circuses, carnivals, and freak shows / Amit R. Patel; title: Discredited victims of childhood violence / Harold Pepinsky; title: Anti-abortion stalkers / Charlotte A. Dudley.