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Introduction : president's opening address

Chris Sumner
formerly President of the World Society of Victimology; and Member of the National Native Title Tribunal, Australia

Published in:
International victimology : selected papers from the 8th International Symposium : proceedings of a symposium held 21-26 August 1994
Chris Sumner, Mark Israel, Michael O'Connell and Rick Sarre (eds.)
ISBN 0 642 24008 6 ; ISSN 1034-5086
Canberra: Australian Institute of Criminology, 1996

Abstract

In opening this Symposium, Sumner addresses the content of the program, noting that it attempts to deal with the major theoretical and practical issues in victimology and confronts contending points of view. He stresses the need for victimologists to be able to compete in the world of ideas and subject their ideas and actions to public scrutiny. Proposals that emerge from research into victims must have a firm base and victimologists must be able to defend their position. For this reason, papers presented cover a vast array of views.