Author: Vera Bergelson
Publisher: Stanford Law Books
Keywords: law, victims, critical, perspectives, crime, liability, rights, wrongs, comparative, criminal
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-08-18
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0804755388
ISBN-13: 9780804755382

"Don’t blame the victim" is a cornerstone maxim of Anglo-American jurisprudence, but should the law generally ignore a victim’s behavior in determining a defendant’s liability? Victims’ Rights and Victims’ Wrongs criticizes the current criminal law approach and outlines a more fair, coherent, and efficient set of rules to recognize that victims sometimes co-author their own losses or injuries. Evaluating a number of controversial cases involving euthanasia, sadomasochism, date rape, battered wives, and "innocent" aggressors, Vera Bergelson builds a theoretical fou

Author: Christopher Williams
Publisher: Earthscan Publications Ltd.
Keywords: victims, environmental
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1998-09-01
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 1853835242
ISBN-13: 9781853835247

Hit a child’s head with a hammer, causing intellectual impairment, and the event is seen as a question of justice, with medicine attempting to heal the damage. Drive a car with leaded petrol, causing intellectual impairment in countless children, and the outcome is seen only as a medical problem, redress being unlikely. Environmental Victims challenges the concepts that have created such a warped view of environmentally-mediated injury. The book draws attention to environmental victims, whether high profile cases such as that exposed by Ken Saro-Wiwa in Nigeria or the nameless statistics

Author: Floyd H. Barackman
Publisher: Kregel Publications
Keywords: victims, victors
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 1993-06-04
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 0825422736
ISBN-13: 9780825422737

The path to victory over sin’s power lies in what God has done for us in Jesus Christ. Christians can be victorious in their battle with the forces of evil.

Author: Eric W. Hickey
Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
Keywords: victims, murderers, serial
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2009-06-23
List price: $84.95
ISBN-10: 0495600814
ISBN-13: 9780495600817

This text provides an in-depth, scholarly, and broad-based examination of serial murderers and their victims. The coverage is supported by extensive data and research, and it profiles some of the most prominent murderers of our time. Author Eric Hickey examines the lives of over 400 serial murderers, analyzing the cultural, historical, and religious factors that influence our myths and stereotypes of these individuals. He then describes the biological, psychological, and sociological reasons for serial murder, offering his own Trauma-Control model for explaining serial murder behavior.

Author: Jon Sobrino
Publisher: Orbis Books
Keywords: victims, view, liberator, christ
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2001-07-30
List price: $32.00
ISBN-10: 1570753725
ISBN-13: 9781570753725

Author: V. Lovell
Publisher: Novinka Books
Keywords: ignore, victims, africa, aids
Number of Pages: 169
Published: 2002-05
List price: $42.00
ISBN-10: 1590330501
ISBN-13: 9781590330500

This book examines the epidemic of AIDS in Africa, poses questions about the practical and ethical possibilities of making HIV cocktails available on a wide scale, and provides an up-to-date bibliography on AIDS in Africa.

Author: Travis Jeppesen
Publisher: Akashic Books
Keywords: bowery, house, little, victims
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2003-05-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1888451424
ISBN-13: 9781888451429

"Victims may by the most exciting first novel I’ve read in a decade or more. This is a brilliant, haunting, and, strangest of all, very funny novel." -- Dennis Cooper, -author of FriskVictims is a novel about the final days of a religious cult called The Overcomers. Like the infamous Heaven’s Gate cult, whose mass suicide gained world media attention in the 1990s, they are a small group of lost souls guided by the teachings of a charismatic leader, Martin Jones. The Overcomers go about their lives preparing for the cosmic event that will signal the end of their time on earth. Their