- Assesses the development of policy and measures aimed at victims of crime in the UK
- Takes a critical victimological approach and also draws on recent developments in cultural victimology
- Problematises key aspects of policy to expose the on-going (and escalating) politicisation of the ‘victims question’
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- About this book
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This volume critically engages with the development of official policy and reform in relation to the support of victims of crime both within and beyond the criminal justice system of England and Wales. Since the election of the Conservative/Liberal Democrat Coalition Government in May 2010 it is argued that victimization has increasingly taken on a greater cultural resonance both in England and Wales and in other industrialised countries. Images of terrorism, public debates around the handling of sexual victimisation by the courts, and the issue of child sexual exploitation have catapulted victim issues into the public consciousness like never before – generating a new form of what Hall terms ‘victim capital’. As such, this book utilises a combination of cultural victimological analysis, governance theory and legal scholarship to address fundamental questions concerning the drivers and impact of victim policy in England and Wales in the 21st century. An engaging and original study, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of victimology and the criminal justice system, as well as activists and policy makers.
- About the authors
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Matthew Hall is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Lincoln Law School, the University of Lincoln, UK.
- Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Constructing Victimhood in Culture and Law
Pages 1-48
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Victims in Public Policy
Pages 49-98
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Support Services for Victims in England & Wales
Pages 99-140
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Victims and the Criminal Justice Process
Pages 141-197
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Victim Compensation, Restitution and Restorative Justice
Pages 199-240
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Victims of Crime
- Book Subtitle
- Construction, Governance and Policy
- Authors
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- Matthew Hall
- Series Title
- Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
- Copyright
- 2017
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-319-64589-6
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-319-64589-6
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-64588-9
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-319-87828-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- IX, 344
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