Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention

Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevent...

Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention was written by Bonnie S. Fisher, and Steven P. Lab. The 1174 page book was published by SAGE in 2010 with an ISBN 10 of 1412960479. Most books are now available in ebook, pdf and audible formats. If you need more information about this publication, it can be purchased at Amazon.com or Google Books. If the book is older and/or out of print book try to locate a copy on eBay.com. Encyclopedia of Victimology and Crime Prevention mentions 1 serial killers including Efren Saldivar. The author Bonnie S. Fisher has 1 book(s) listed on Killer.Cloud used for the purpose of documenting facts about Serial Killers listed in our database.

Book Summary

Victimology and crime prevention are growing, interrelated areas cutting across several disciplines. Victimology examines victims of all sorts of criminal activity, from domestic abuse, to street violence, to victims in the workplace who lose jobs and pensions due to malfeasance by corporate executives. Crime prevention is an important companion to victimology because it offers insight and techniques to prevent situations that lead to crime and attempts to offer ideas and means for mitigating or minimizing the potential for victimization. .In many ways, the two fields have developed along parallel yet separate paths, and the literature on both has been scattered across disciplines as varied as sociology, law and criminology, public health a...