RUBACK.

RUBACK, R Barry, & THOMPSON Martie P Social and Psychological connections of Violent Victimization. Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications, 2001 256pp $5195 (p) $11500 (h)

What are the issues that violent crime has upon our everyday lives, both in spells of the individual victims and their larger community? This paragraph draws from both the fields of criminology and psychology to provide a comprehensive examination of the sum of two units major areas that are greatest in quantity significantly affected by violent crime--the crime victims themselves and the larger sphere of their families, friends, neighborhoods, and communities. Beginning with a discussion of for what reason we measure and study violent victimization, the authors contemplate at the immediate and long-term impact violent acts have immediately after the direct victims. They then examine "secondary victims"--family members, neighbors, friends, and the professionals involved with investigating and prosecuting the crime and helping the victim, and also the impacts of violent crime upon neighborhoods and communities. The authors judge with recommendations of effective interventions that can be made at the of the same heights of the individual, the community, and the criminal justice and mental health systems

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