Victimizing vulnerable groups : images of uniquehigh-risk crime targets / edited by Charisse Tia Maria Coston ; foreword by Freda Adler.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Fear of crime among vulnerable populations : homeless women / Charisse T.M. Coston and James O. Finckenauer -- Worries about crime : rank-ordering survival concerns among urban transient females / Charisse T.M. Coston -- Personal and situational characteristics of custodial African-American grandmothers / Dorothy S. Ruiz, Carolyn Wei Zhu, and Martha R. Crowther -- Race and crime : vulnerability at the margins / Leon E. Pettiway -- The persecution and ill-treatment of African Americans in the health-care system in the United States / Robert L. Bing III -- Exploiting the aged in familial settings / Anita Neuberger Blowers -- Fear of crime : its meaning in the lives of elderly women / Kate Hanrahan and John J. Gibbs -- Where are you now, Cesar Chavez? The unique vulnerabilities and victimization experiences of Mexican immigrants in the United States / David A. Jenks and Catherine A. Jenks -- Intersecting identities and pregnant drug-users : victimization and vulnerabilities to criminalization / Paula K. Rector and Nancy A. Wonders -- Disregarding harm : an examination of the vulnerabilities of youth incarcerated in adult correctional facilities / Pauline K. Brennan -- Prostitutes as prey : empirical support for the lifestyle/exposure model as an explanation of personal victimization and worries about crime / Charisse T.M. Coston and Lee E. Ross -- AIDS, violence, and matters of respect : family and peer relations of African-American and Latino convicted felons / Laura T. Fishman -- Worries about crime among foreign students studying in the United States : a comparative study / Charisse T.M. Coston -- Victims in underdeveloped countries / Diane C. Bates and Joanne Ardovini-Brooker -- Low crime rates in Bahrain : Islamic social control--testing the theory of "synnomie" / Charisse T.M. Coston and Adel A. Helal -- Teacher, actor, candlestick maker : victims all looking at government-sanctioned victimization of its citizenry / Babette M. Protz -- Nonhuman animals as victims : victimology and the animal-rights movement / Bonnie Berry -- The exploitation, victimization, and unique vulnerabilities of native Americans / Courtney C. Petersen -- Removal of the southwest Michigan Potawatomi : government crimes of oppression and cultural genocide / Linda Robyn -- Victimization of women : a theoretical perspective on dowry deaths in India / Mangai Natarajan -- Sexual victimization by airport screeners, post-9/11 : terrorism, sexism, and capitalism at work / Bonnie Berry -- Social distance and vulnerability : the case of sexual orientation / James Garofalo and Jane Bryant -- The perilous existence of children as freaks in circuses, carnivals, and freak shows / Amit R. Patel -- Discredited victims of childhood violence / Harold Pepinsky -- Anti-abortion stalkers / Charlotte A. Dudley.