Tag: Victims

Free Download Invisible Victims: Homelessness and the Growing Security Gap By Laura Huey
2012 | 192 Pages | ISBN: 1442643285 | PDF | 2 MB
Despite Western society’s preoccupation with safety and protection, its most vulnerable members still lack access to the level of security that many of us take for granted. In this trailblazing study, Laura Huey illustrates the issue of a ‘security gap’ faced by increasing homeless populations: while they are among the most likely victims of crime, they are also among the least served by existing forms of state and private security.Invisible Victims presents the first comprehensive, integrated study of the risks faced by homeless people and their attempts to find safety and security in often dangerous environments. Huey draws not only on current debates on security within criminology, but also on a decade’s worth of her own field research on the victimization and policing of the homeless. A theoretically and empirically informed examination of the myriad issues affecting the homeless, Invisible Victims makes a compelling case for society to provide necessary services and, above all, a basic level of security for this population.

Free Download Lynda Telford, "Tudor Victims of the Reformation"
English | ISBN: 1473834031 | 2017 | 256 pages | PDF | 10 MB
This book describes a selection of people caught up in the turmoil that presaged the reformation – a period of change instigated by a king whose desire for a legitimate son was to brutally sweep aside an entire way of life.

Free Download Lisa R. Smith, "The Blaming and Shaming of Defenseless Victims in America’s Rape Culture"
English | ISBN: 1793627096 | 2022 | 170 pages | EPUB, PDF | 255 KB + 452 KB
Every sixty-eight seconds an American is sexually assaulted. Lisa Smith writes in light of this startling statistic and against the backdrop of the blaming and shaming of countless victims to ask one important question: why does America’s rape culture continue to exist? The Blaming and Shaming of Defenseless Victims in America’s Rape Culture explores the ways collective memory, religion, and sexist beliefs are used to silence survivors and protect the powerful. The author delves into how justice is denied in sexual assault cases-rape kits untested by law enforcement agencies, information suppression through non-disclosure agreements, and denial and inaction by organizations, universities, corporations, and people all contribute to undetected rapists in our society. Despite these discouraging happenings, the #MeToo movement proved that legions of survivors of sexual violence can use their voice to fight back. Oral and historical narratives are included to encourage others to share their stories and promote social accountability. Through insightful research and analysis, the author offers a much-needed viewpoint on a vital and timely issue-why and how American society is perpetuating and protecting a dangerous culture of sexual violence, and even more importantly, how to fight back.

Free Download Ke-Chin Hsia, "Victims’ State: War and Welfare in Austria, 1868-1925"
English | ISBN: 0197582370 | 2022 | 360 pages | PDF | 6 MB
The belligerent country that literally started the First World War, the Habsburg Empire suffered grievously during the global conflict. At the end of the war, it was estimated that 1.2 million soldiers, out of 8 million men and 100,000 women mobilized from an empire of 52 million, perished in service. Among those who lived, the wounded, the disabled, and their dependents constituted at least several million people whose survival was endangered both during and after the war. How did the Habsburg Empire confront the scale of the casualties brought about by the First World War? What care and support were offered to disabled soldiers and dead soldiers’ surviving dependents?

Free Download Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims: Asylums and Internment, 1922-1943
by Gabriella Romano
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1350377082 | 263 Pages | True PDF | 14.1 MB

Free Download Gabriella Romano, "Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims: Asylums and Internment, 1922 – 1943"
English | ISBN: 1350377082 | 2024 | 264 pages | EPUB | 561 KB
This book examines the question of the repression of LGBT people through psychiatry during the fascist regime in Italy, a subject that has not been investigated until now. It draws together the substantial archival record of patients, doctors and fascist authorities to reconstruct intricate behind-the-scenes dialogue, and to document one of the ways in which the regime repressed LGBT lives in this period.

Free Download Gabriella Romano, "Italian Fascism’s Forgotten LGBT Victims: Asylums and Internment, 1922 – 1943"
English | ISBN: 1350377082 | 2024 | 264 pages | EPUB | 561 KB
This book examines the question of the repression of LGBT people through psychiatry during the fascist regime in Italy, a subject that has not been investigated until now. It draws together the substantial archival record of patients, doctors and fascist authorities to reconstruct intricate behind-the-scenes dialogue, and to document one of the ways in which the regime repressed LGBT lives in this period.

Free Download Tracing and Documenting Nazi Victims Past and Present
by Henning Borggräfe
English | 2020 | ISBN: 3110661608 | 351 Pages | True PDF | 14.2 MB

Free Download Lenore Anderson, Misty Monroe (Narrator), "In Their Names: The Untold Story of Victims’ Rights, Mass Incarceration, and the Future of Public Safety"
English | ASIN: B0CG2PTH8Q | 2023 | MP3@64 kbps | ~10:50:00 | 307 MB
When twenty-six-year-old recent college graduate Aswad Thomas was days away from starting a professional basketball career in 2009, he was shot twice while buying juice at a convenience store. The trauma left him in excruciating pain, with mounting medical debt, and struggling to cope with deep anxiety and fear. That was the same year the national incarceration rate peaked. Yet, despite thousands of new tough-on-crime policies and billions of new dollars pumped into "justice," Aswad never received victim compensation, support, or even basic levels of concern. In the name of victims, justice bureaucracies ballooned while most victims remained on their own.
In In Their Names, Lenore Anderson offers a close look at how the political call to help victims in the 1980s morphed into a demand for bigger bureaucracies and more incarceration, and cemented the long-standing chasm that exists between most victims and the justice system. She argues that the powerful myth that mass incarceration benefits victims obscures recognition of what most victims actually need, including addressing their trauma, which is a leading cause of subsequent violent crime.

Free Download Sexual Justice: Supporting Victims, Ensuring Due Process, and Resisting the Conservative Backlash by Alexandra Brodsky
English | August 24, 2021 | ISBN: 1250262542 | 336 pages | PDF | 3.55 Mb
A pathbreaking work for the next stage of the #MeToo movement, showing how we can address sexual harms with fairness to both victims and the accused, and exposing the sexism that shapes today’s contentious debates about due process