Revitalizing Victimization Theory

Travis C. Pratt is Research Director of the Harris County Community Supervision and Corrections Department and Fellow of the University of Cincinnati Corrections Institute. He conducts research in the areas of correctional policy, the sources of criminal behavior, and the nature of victimization. Jillian J. Turanovic is an Associate Professor and Director of the Crime Victim Research and Policy Institute in the College of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Florida State University. Her research is aimed at examining various issues in criminological theory and correctional policy, with a special focus on victimization, violence, and the life course.

Introduction: Revitalizing Victimization Theory; Part I. Revisiting Major Perspectives in Victimization Theory; 1. What Ideas of Victimization and Vulnerability Mean for Criminological Theory: A Logical Appraisal; 2. Modern Control Theory, Lifestyle, and Criminal Victimization; 3. Understanding Victimization: The Role of Cultural Theories; 4. Environmental Criminology, Design, and Victimization: What We Know, How We Have Failed, and Where We Need to Go; Part II. Victimization and Vulnerable Populations; 5. Victims of Atrocity Crimes; 6. Theoretical Perspectives on the Victimization of Women; 7. Theories of Inmate Victimization; 8. Putting School-Based Victimization in Context; Part III. New Theoretical Applications; 9. Biosocial Perspectives on Victimization; 10. Toward a Realist Criminology of the Internet: Considering Technology-Facilitated Crime and Victimization; 11. A Theory of Sex Trafficking Victimization