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Informationen zum Autor D.S.W. from U. of Maryland. Chairman of Administration of Justice Department. Author or co-author of ten books, many in second or third editions, among them: Moraskin/Roberts: Visions for Change: Crime and Justice in the Twenty-First Century 2 ND (PH, 1998, 444 pp. $55.00), Roberts: Crisis Intervention Handbook: Assessment, Treatment, and Research 2/e (O.U.P., 2000), Roberts ed. Juvenile Justice: Policies, Programs, and Services 2/e (Wadsworth, 1998, 300 pp. $45.95) He has also published two other books with Sage: Crisis Intervention and Time-Limited Cognitive Treatment - pub’d.1/95, sales to date of 2,585/$61,662 (2,290 paper/$50,497) Helping Crime Victims: Research, Policy and Practice – pub’d 6/90, sales to date of 3,031/$57,325 (2,425 paper/$40,943) Klappentext Prepared for use by informed citizens, victims' solicitors, social workers, criminal justice administrators, government officials and legislators, Helping Crime Victims offers the reader practical ideas and realistic strategies in the form of procedural guides and workable programme components and services that seem effective in meeting the needs of crime victims. Zusammenfassung Prepared for use by informed citizens, victims' solicitors, social workers, criminal justice administrators, government officials and legislators, Helping Crime Victims offers the reader practical ideas and realistic strategies in the form of procedural guides and workable programme components and services that seem effective in meeting the needs of crime victims. Inhaltsverzeichnis PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Introduction and Overview of Victimology and Victim Services PART TWO: NATIONAL SURVEY OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTIONS OF 184 VICTIM SERVICE AND WITNESS ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS Background Functions and Services of Victim Service and Witness Assistance Programs Specialized Services for Elderly Crime Victims Organizational Issues Victim Witness Programs Self-Evaluation of the Strengths, Problems, and Needed Changes Model Victim Service and Witness Assistance Programs PART THREE: PROGRAMS, RECOVERY SERVICES, AND REMEDIES FOR CRIME VICTIMS The University and the Development of Victim Services in Orange County, California - Arnold Binder and Harriet Bemus Responding to Missing and Murdered Children in America - Eric Hickey A Model for Crisis Intervention with Battered Women and Their Children - Albert R Roberts and Beverly Schenkman Roberts Crisis and Recovery Services for Family Violence Survivors - Arlene Bowers Andrews Restitution to Crime Victims as a Presumptive Requirement in Criminal Case Dispositions - Cathryn Jo Rosen and Alan T Harland ...
