Choose a group from the list in Box 2.2 whose plight is currently being rediscovered.
SUGGESTED RESEARCH PROJECTS
1. Find out about some recently proposed or passed laws in your state that have been named in honor of crime victims. In each case, ask whether this legislation offers anything specific—other than ratcheted-up punishment of the offender—to ease the victim’s plight.
2. Choose a group from the list in Box 2.2 whose plight is currently being rediscovered. Pose questions that researchers ought to examine. Find out about the composition of this group,
the nature of its losses, and the efforts now underway to ease its suffering.
3. Choose several groups whose plight is now well known, such as physically abused children, kidnapped children, battered women, abused elders, or carjacked motorists. Find out about how their plight was first rediscovered by looking up the oldest or earliest articles that appear in a comprehensive database of news- paper, magazine, and journal articles.
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