International victimology: selected papers from the 8th international symposium

Proceedings of a symposium held 21-26 August 1994, Adelaide

Contents

• Preface
• About the editors
• Contributors
• Introduction: president's opening address
  
  Chris Sumner, formerly President of the World Society of Victimology; and Member of the National Native Title Tribunal, Australia

Section 1: Power, politics and victimisation

• Section overview
  
  Mark Israel, Department of Legal Studies, Flinders University, South Australia
• Paradigms and paradoxes of victimology
  
  Robert Elias, Department of Politics, University of San Francisco
• Decisions not to report sexual assault in Japan
  
  John Dussich, Yoshiko Fujiwara and Asami Sagisaka, Tokiwa University, Japan
• Looking back, looking forward: two decades and shifting perspectives on familial violence
  
  Elizabeth A Stanko, Beunel University, United Kingdom
• No exit: violence, gender and the streets
  
  Suzanne E Hatty and Stuart Burke, Southern Cross University; and Nanette J Davis, University of Portland, United States of America
• Domestic violence: towards a new theoretical approach
  
  Sushma Sood, Department of Sociology, University of Rajasthan, India
• Violence against women under china's economic modernisation: resurgence of women trafficking in China
  
  Xin Ren, Division of Criminal Justice, California State University, United States of America
• Domestic violence against women in the conditions of war and economic crisis
  
  Vesna Nikolic-Ristanovic, Institute for Criminological and Sociological Research, Yugoslavia
• The commercialism of women's fear of crime
  
  Elizabeth A Stanko, Beunel University, United Kingdom
• Gay homicides: activism, victims and law and order
  
  Steve Tomsen, University of Newcastle
• 'Are you a Boy or a Girl?' (Hetero)sexism and verbal hostility
  
  Gail Mason, La Trobe University
• Homophobia, hate and violence against lesbian and gays in NSW: an overview of some studies
  
  Paul van Reyk, Coordinator, Lesbian and Gay Anti-Violence Project, New South Wales
• Anger, disappointment, and disgust: reactions of victims of a telephone investment scam
  
  David Shichor, Jeff Doocy and Gilbert Geis, California State University, United States of America
• The victims of pyramid sales schemes and remedies in Japan
  
  Tatsuya Ota, Keio University, Japan

Section 2: Victim surveys and methodology

• Section overview
  
  Rick Sarre, University of South Australia
• Crime and victim surveys
  
  Jan J M van Dijk, University of Leyden; and Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands
• The Dutch victim guidelines and their impact on victim satisfaction
  
  Jo-Anne M Wemmers, Ministry of Justice, The Netherlands
• The effect of interview method and response rate on victim survey crime rates
  
  Per Stangeland, University of Malaga, Spain
• Use of official statistics and crime survey data in determining violence against women
  
  Julie Gardner, formerly Office of Crime Statistics, South Australia

Section 3: Victims, offenders and the criminal justice system

• Section overview
  
  Chris Sumner, formerly President of the World Society of Victimology; and Member of the National Native Title Tribunal, Australia

General

• Conflicts of victims' interests and offenders' rights in the criminal justice system: a European perspective
  
  Marc Groenhuijsen, Tilburg University, The Netherlands
• The implications of victim-oriented developments in the criminal justice system for female victims
  
  Kate Warner, University of Tasmania
• Stalking: crime of the '90s?
  
  Matthew Goode, Attorney-General's Department, South Australia

Victim Impact Statements

• Victim impact statements in South Australia
  
  Edna Erez, Kent State University, United States of America; Leigh Roeger, Office of Crime Statistics, South Australia; and Michael O'Connell, South Australia Police

Section 4: Serving victims

• Section overview
  
  Michael O'Connell, South Australia Police; and Rick Sarre, University of South Australia

Victims' services

• Group work with victims of crime: mutual aid in practice
  
  John Oliphant, Social Worker, formerly of Victims of Crime Service, South Australia
• Preventing re-victimisation: the South Australian experience
  
  Andrew Paterson, formerly Executive Director, Victims of Crime Service, South Australia
• Towards a new millennium in victim assistance
  
  Marlene A Young, Executive Director, National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA), United States of America

Criminal Injuries Compensation

• Criminal injuries compensation for domestic sexual assault: obstructing the oppressed
  
  Ian Freckelton, Barrister; and President, Australian and New Zealand Association of Psychiatry, Psychology and Law
• Compensating crime victims within New Zealand's no fault accident compensation scheme: the advantages and disadvantages
  
  John Miller, Barrister; and Senior Lecturer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Professional Service Providers

• Attitudes to victims: issues for medicine, the law and society
  
  Alexander McFarlane, Department of Psychiatry, University of Adelaide, South Australia
• Response of health professions to domestic violence in emergency departments
  
  Gwenneth Roberts, University of Queensland
• Blaming the victim: domestic violence and the codependency model
  
  Greg Dear, Ministry of Justice, Western Australia

Prevention and Restoration

• Preventing criminal victimisation: the case for an intersectoral response to victimisation: a South Australian perspective
  
  David Hunt, Commissioner of Police, South Australia Police
• Preventing peer victimisation in schools
  
  Ken Rigby, Institute of Social Research, University of South Australia
• A profile of the murder victim in South Africa as an aid to prevention
  
  Rika Snyman, University of South Africa
• Victim-offender reconciliation with adult offenders in Germany
  
  Ute I Hartmann, Criminological Research Institute of Lower-Saxony, Germany

• Rapporteur's Reports (summarised)
• List of unpublished papers presented at Symposium