Preface / Samuel Dash -- Foreword / William F. McDonald -- Prologue : A victim's view of criminal justice / Anonymous -- Criminal justice and the victim : an introduction / The victim's decision not to invoke the criminal justice process / Michael J. Hindelang and Michael Gottfredson -- The decision to call the police : Reactions to burglary / A. Emerson Smith and Dal Maness, Jr. -- The role of attitudes in the decision to report crimes to the police / Anne L. Schneider, Janie M. Burcart, L.A. Wilson, II -- The victim in the administration of criminal justice : Problems and perceptions / Richard D. Knudten ... [et al.] -- Patterns of victim advocacy / Frederic L. DuBow and Theodore M. Becker -- Improving the treatment of victims : Some guides for action / Richard P. Lynch -- The effects of victim characteristics on the disposition of violent crimes / Kristen M. Williams -- The effects of victim characteristics on judicial decision making / Deborah Denno and James A. Cramer -- The victim and correctional theory : Integrating victim reparation with offender rehabilitation / Stephen Schafer -- Crime victims and victim compensation programs / Gilbert Geis -- Toward a theory of victim-criminal justice system interactions / Eduard Ziegenhagen