International handbook of victimology / / edited by Shlomo Giora Shoham, Paul Knepper, Martin Kett

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910459894603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2010
• ISBN: 0-429-24999-3; 1-282-50396-0; 9786612503962; 1-4200-8548-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (734 p.) : ill., maps
• Altri autori (Persone): ShohamS. Giora <1929->; KnepperPaul; KettMartin
• Disciplina: 362.88
• Soggetti: Victims of crimes; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front cover; Table of Contents; Preface; Editors; Contributors; Introduction; Section I: Theoretical and Historical Frameworks; Chapter 1. Becoming a Victim; Chapter 2. The Meaning of Justice for Victims; Chapter 3. The Evolution of a Young, Promising Discipline: Sixty Years of Victimology, a Retrospective and Prospective Look; Chapter 4. History and a Theoretical Structure of Victimology; Section II: Research Methods in Victimology; Chapter 5. Property Crimes and Repeat Victimization: A Fresh Look; Chapter 6. Key Victimological Findings from the International Crime Victims Survey; Chapter 7. Patterns of Communal Violence Victimization in South India: A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) AnalysisSection III. Patterns of Victimization; Chapter 8. Secondary Victims and Secondary Victimization; Chapter 9. Drugs and Alcohol in Relation to Crime and Victimization; Chapter 10. Victims of Sex Trafficking: Gender, Myths, and Consequences; Chapter 11. Occupational Victimization; Chapter 12. Tourism and Victimization; Section IV. Responses to Criminal Victimization; Chaper 13. Victims and Criminal Justice in Europe; ; Chapter 14. Lobbying for Rights: Crime Victims in Israel; Chapter 15. Victim Services in the United StatesChapter 16. Fear of Crime in the Republic of Ireland: Understanding Its Origins and Consequences; Section V: Restorative Justice; Chapter 17. When Prisoners Leave: Victim-Offender Relationships in a Transitions Context; Chapter 18. Death of a Metaphor?; Chapter 19. The Healing Nature of Apology and Its Contribution toward Emotional Reparation and Closure in Restorative Justice Encounters; Chapter 20. Exploring the Effects of Restorative Justice on Crime Victims for Victims of Conflict in Transitional Societies; Section VI: Victims and Social DivisionsChapter 21. The Hidden Violent Victimization of Women; Chapter 22. Images of Criminality, Victimization, and Disability; Chapter 23. The Psychological Impact of Victimization: Mental Health Outcomes and Psychological, Legal, and Restorative Interventions; Chapter 24. Culture and Wife Abuse: An Overview of Theory, Research, and Practice; Chapter 25. The Idea of the Crime Victim as a Trojan Horse in the Swedish Social Services Act; Conclusion; Index; Back cover
• Sommario/riassunto: In the nearly four decades since the First International Symposium on Victimology convened in Jerusalem in 1973, some concepts and themes have continued to hold a prominent place in the literature, while new ones have also emerged. Exploring enduring topics such as conceptions of victimhood, secondary and hidden victimization, and social services for victims along with more recent issues, the International Handbook of Victimology provides an interdisciplinary study of the topic from a diverse range of professionals on the cutting edge of victimology research. Forty experts

A History of Literary Criticism

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910657605903321
• Autore: Blamires Harry
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : , : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, , 1991; ©1991
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (277 pages)
• Collana: Bloomsbury History of Literature Ser.
• Disciplina: 801/.95/0941
• Soggetti: English literature-History and criticism
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introductory note -- Editor's preface -- 1. The Classical Age -- I Plato -- II Aristotle -- III Horace -- IV Longinus -- V Rhetoric: Cicero, Quintilian, Seneca, Petronius, Martianus Capella -- 2. The Middle Ages -- I Plotinus -- II Augustine and Aquinas -- III The Trivium (Dyscolus, Donatus, Servius, Macrobius, Priscianus, Porphyry) -- IV The British Scene: Bede, Egbert, Alcuin, Alfred, John of Salisbury -- V Style and Substance: Geoffrey de Vinsauf, (Plutarch) Dante, Boccaccio -- 3. The Renaissance -- I The Complete Man: Elyot, Ascham -- II The Art of Poetry: Gascoigne, James VI, Puttenham, Webbe -- III The Defence of Poetry: Gosson, Lodge, Sidney (Minturno, Scaliger), Harington -- IV Classical or Native Versification: Kirke, Harvey, Drant, du Bellay, Chapman, Campion, Daniel -- V Bacon and Jonson -- 4. The Seventeenth Century I: Peachman to Dryden -- I The Gentleman and the Christian: Peacham, Drayton, Reynolds, Milton -- II Some Royalist Critics: Davenant, Hobbes, Cowley, Sprat -- III The Debate about Drama: Flecknoe, Howard, Shadwell -- IV John Dryden (Rochester, Roscommon) -- 5. The Seventeenth Century II: Rymer to Dennis -- I The Standing of the Elizabethans: Rymer, Butler, Phillips, Langbaine -- II The Ancients and the Moderns: Temple, Wotton (Fontenelle, Perrault) -- III The Moral Debate: Mulgrave, Wolseley, Blackmore, Collier, Vanbrugh, Congreve -- IV John Dennis -- 6. The Eighteenth Century I: The Age of Addison and Pope -- I Joseph Addison -- II The Battle of the Books: Swift, Farquhar -- III Poetry: Sacred Vocation and Disciplined Art: Watts, Shaftesbury, ; Trapp, Hughes -- IV Alexander Pope and his Victims: Welsted, Theobald -- V Uniformity and Simplicity: Hutcheson, Spence, Thomson, Husbands, Blackwell -- VI Henry Fielding -- 7. The Eighteenth Century II: Johnson and his Successors.; I Dr Johnson -- II The Rejection of Neoclassicism: J. Warton, Young, T. Warton, Hurd, Lowth, Blair, Whiter -- III Theorists on Aesthetic Experience: Hume, Burke, Reynolds, Kames, Campbell, Beattie, Jones -- IV The Practitioners Speak: Goldsmith, Mackenzie, Cumberland -- 8. The Romantic Age -- I William Wordsworth -- II Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- III Romanticism at Bay: Peacock, Shelley, Blake, Keats -- IV Hazlitt and De Quincey -- V Journalists and Reviewers: Leigh Hunt, Jeffrey, Gifford, Croker, Scott, Lockhart, Hogg, Wilson, Robinson -- 9. The Victorian Age -- I Aftermath of Romanticism: Carlyle, Mill, Keble, Smith, Ruskin -- II Matthew Arnold -- III Victorian Reviewers: Lewes, Martineau, Bagehot, Hutton, Pattison, Stephen -- IV Laughter and Glory: Meredith, G. M. Hopkins -- V Aestheticism: Pater, Swinburne, Wilde -- VI Le Fin de Siècle: Symons, Literary Biographers -- 10. The Twentieth Century I: The Early Decades -- I Henry James and Wells -- II The Modernist Movement: Yeats, Hulme, Pound, Ford -- III Bloomsbury and Eastwood: Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, Murry -- IV T. S. Eliot -- V Academic Criticism: Saintsbury, Grierson, Housman, Bradley, Granville Barker, Ker, Waddell -- VI Cambridge Influences: Richards, Empsom, Leavis -- VII Symbol and Myth: Barfield, Bodkin, Wilson Knight -- 11. The Twentieth Century II: Post-war Developments -- I C. S. Lewis and Northrop Frye -- II The 'New Criticism': Ransom, Penn Warren, Brooks, Wimsatt &amp -- Beardsley, Winters -- III Formalism and Linguistic Criticism: Jakobson, Fowler -- IV Structuralism and Deconstruction: Barthes, Derrida, Culler, de Man -- V Marxist Criticism: Caudwell, Knights, Brecht, Lukácz, Williams, Eagleton -- VI Feminist Criticism: de Beauvoir, Woolf, Donovan, Showalter, Cixous, (Fish) Meese -- Notes -- Further reading -- Chronological table -- Index.