Victims of crime : construction, governance and policy /

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Author / Creator:Hall, Matthew (Criminologist), author.
Imprint:Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Palgrave studies in victims and victimology
Palgrave studies in victims and victimology.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12455583
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ISBN:9783319645896
3319645897
9783319645889
3319645889
Digital file characteristics:text file PDF
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 30, 2018).
Summary: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.
Other form:Printed edition: 9783319645889
Standard no.:10.1007/978-3-319-64589-6
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; 1: Constructing Victimhood in Culture and Law; What Is a Victim? The Metric of Damage; Victimisation as a Cultural Construct; Challenging Victimisation by the State and by the Criminal Justice System: The Official Labelling of Victims; Expanded Understandings of Victimhood Versus Legal Precision?; Victimisation as Narrative; Scope of This Volume: Constructing Victimhood in Culture and Law; References; 2: Victims in Public Policy
  • Rise of the Victim in Politics and Putting Victims at the Hear the Criminal Justice SystemVictim Policy Post 2010: Contents and Drivers; The New Governance of Victims; National Governance of Victims; The Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses; The Victims; Ministers; Local Governance of Victims; Compensation Reform and the Responsibilisation of Offenders; The 2012 EU Directive and Updating the Victims; Code; Human Trafficking, Domestic Violence, and Sexual Violence and Abuse; A Victim; Law?; Victim Governance and Victim Policy Post 2010: An Appraisal
  • Brexit an BeyondReferences; 3: Support Services for Victims in England & Wales; Victims and Their Need for Support; The Changing Face of Victim Support; The Commissioning Framework for Localised Victim Services; Assessing Victims; Needs Locally; Methodologies Employed by PCCs to Assess Local Need; Findings from Local Assessments of Victims; Needs; Examining the Wider Work of PCCs with Victims; Nationally Commissioned Services; The National Homicide Service; Victims of Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery; Support for Victims of Rape and Other Sex Crimes
  • Domestic and Sexual ViolenceThe New Era of Victim Support; References; 4: Victims and the Criminal Justice Process; Theorising Victims and Victim;Participation; Within the Criminal Justice Process; Criminal Process as Cultural Narrative; Participation of Victims; Approaching the Police and Police Investigations; Supporting Homicide Survivors; Prosecution Decisions and the Role of the CPS; Supporting Victims at Court; In theA Courtroom: Victims as Witnesses; Extending Special Measures; Pre-recorded Cross-Examination; Rape Shield Laws
  • Victims in Criminal Court: Structured Mayhem?Crime Victims in the Civil Court; Victims and the Sentencing Process; After-Trial Support and Explanation of Outcome; Support on Parole/Release of Offenders; A Victim-Focused Criminal Justice System?; References; 5: Victim Compensation, Restitution and Restorative Justice; State Compensation; Justifications and Purpose of State Compensation Schemes; State Compensation Schemes: Restricted Within Cultural Boundaries?; Restitution and the Victim Surcharge; Restorative Justice; Redress to Victims in a Cultural Context; References