Andrew Karmen
Andrew Karmen has been a professor in the Sociology Department at John Jay College of Criminal Justice since
1978. He has taught courses on a wide range of subjects including general sociology, criminal justice, criminology,
crime and justice in New York City, drug abuse, delinquency, social problems, race relations, research methods,
statistics, and victimology. A member of the doctoral faculty, he has served as the coordinator of both the criminology
and criminal justice undergraduate majors, and as the co-director of the master's program in criminal justice.
Dr. Karmen has written journal articles and chapters in books on a number of subjects, including drug abuse, police
use of deadly force, auto theft, providing defense attorneys to indigents, victims' rights, the victimization of
women, and predictions about the plight of crime victims in the future. His investigation of why crime rates rise
and fall, NEW YORK MURDER MYSTERY: THE TRUE STORY BEHIND THE CRIME CRASH OF THE 1990s, (NYU Press, paperback edition
2006) unearths statistical evidence that casts doubt on most of the widely held beliefs about the reasons for the
dramatic improvement in public safety in New York City.
Summary
A first in the field and true classic, CRIME VICTIMS: AN INTRODUCTION TO VICTIMOLOGY offers the most comprehensive
and balanced exploration of victimology � a vital new and, at times, controversial branch of criminology � available
today. The author examines the victims' plight, and is careful to place statistics from the FBI's Uniform Crime
Report and Bureau of Justice Statistics National Crime Victimization Survey in context. The text systematically
investigates how victims' currently are handled by the criminal justice system, analyzes the goals of the victims'
rights movement, and discusses what the future is likely to hold. This seventh edition expands coverage of human
trafficking, crimes on campus, identity theft, stalking, motor vehicle theft, and prisoners attacked behind bars.
This student-friendly textbook will serve as a valuable home-library reference book for anyone interested in criminology
and criminal justice.
Table of Contents
1. What is Victimology?
2. The Rediscovery of Crime Victims.
3. Sources of information About Crime Victims: The UCR and the NCVS.
4. Violent Crimes: Murders and Robberies.
5. The Victims' Contribution to the Crime Problem.
6. Victims and the Criminal Justice System: Cooperation and Conflict with the Police.
7. Victims and the Criminal Justice System: Cooperation and Conflict with Prosecutors, Judges and Corrections Officials.
8. Children as Victims.
9. Victims of Violence by Lovers and Family Members.
10. Victims of Rapes and Other Sexual Assaults.
11. Additional Groups of Victims with Special Problems.
12. Repaying Victims.
13. Victims in the Twenty-First Century: Alternative Directions.
