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Title: Victimology
by William G. Doerner, Steven P. Lab
ISBN: 1-58360-523-1
Publisher: Anderson Pub Co
Pub. Date: May, 2002
Format: Paperback
List Price(USD): $48.95
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Summary: Why the old examples?
Comment: This comes from William Doerner & Steve Lab's "Victimology" 3rd edition, published this year [2002]
from the third chapter, 'The Costs of Being a Victim.' Read it critically, because the casual reader is being
set up to accept history as contemporary fact. Look at the tense Doerner writes in, even though his
example is now thirty years old"

The Second Insult: System Participation

A victim's problems have only just begun if the case is processed through the criminal justice system. The
system extracts further costs as soon as people enter into the halls of justice. In fact, the plight of victims
and witnesses has led at least one prosecutor to chastise the system for victimizing its own patrons. Ash
(1972:390) describes typical system encounters in the following terms:

[T]he witness will several times be ordered to appear at some designated place, usually a courtroom
.... Several times he will be made to wait tedious, unconscionable long intervals of time in dingy
courthouse corridors or in other grim surroundings. Several times he will suffer the discomfort of
being ignored by busy officials and the bewilderment and painful anxiety of not knowing what is
going on around him or what is going to happen to him. On most of these occasions he will never be
asked to testify or to give anyone any information, often because of a last-minute adjournment
granted in a huddled conference at the judge's bench. He will miss many hours from work (or
school) and consequently will lose many hours of wages. In most jurisdictions he will receive at best
only token payment in the form of ridiculously low witness fees for his time and trouble.

Doerner & Lab use present tenses to describe something that happen thirty years ago, as if it happens
now. Karmen pulls the same stunt in his "Crime Victims" 4th edition (2001) by presenting a long article in
the present tense which comes from the 1982 President's Task Force Report, twenty years ago. My
problem is that these are respectable names in the victimology market, and they're trying to pull a fast one
by manipulating the reader's emotions. Of course what happened thirty years ago wasn't right, but we're
led in our outrage to presume this still happens. Why try to present past injustices as present problems?
Do the writers not have any more recent examples?

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