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This 7-page paper is a review of Zedner and Morgan's groundbreaking book dealing with the impact of criminal acts on children, and how children are further victimized in their trips through the judicial system as a result.
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these crimes are little worse. Maybe not a little worse, but much, much worse. This is because not only has the crime
itself turned the child into a victim, but what the child goes through in terms of the legal system itself. Sometimes, after having gone through the system, from reporting the
crime, to having to stand trial, the child ends up feeling even more abused and victimized than he or she did when the crime was committed against the child in
the first place. No adult (especially an adult with children) likes to think of a child that is suffering as a victim of a particular crime; theres something about the
innocence of a child that makes victimization against him or her a little hard to take. This, at least, is the view
taken by authors Jane Morgan and Lucia Zedner in their book Crime Victims - Crime, Impact and Criminal Justice. The book was published in 1992 by Clarendon Publications in London,
with an ISBN number of 0-19-925700-7. The paperback version offers 218 pages. The important thing about this book is that its considered
by many experts to be a "breakthrough" book - for the most part, while studies of victimization of adults of crime have been printed and researched, the same cant necessarily
be said of those same studies being done on children. In our society, children tend to be the faceless, voiceless minority - if something happens to a child, it isnt
necessarily as important nor are the implications as far reaching as if it had happened to an adult. But the authors go out of their way to prove that this
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