Integrating a victim perspective within criminal justice : international debates /
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| Imprint: | Aldershot ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate, c2000. |
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| Description: | xiii, 318 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Advances in criminology series Advances in criminology. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4406053 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- An overview of key themes
- The status of victims: Victims as consumers of the criminal justice system?
- Individualization of the victim: from positivism to postmodernism
- Taking the law into their own hands: victims as offenders
- Implications of the international crime victims survey for a victim perspective
- Victims within criminal justice: The new status of victims in the UK: opportunities and threats
- Victims and criminal justice: creating responsible criminal justice agencies
- Integrating a victim perspective in criminal justice through victim impact statements
- Victims' rights, defendants' rights and criminal procedure
- Victims and restorative justice: The practice of family group conferences in New Zealand: assessing the place, potential and pitfalls of restorative justice
- Integrating a multi-victim perspective into criminal justice through restorative justice conferences
- Extending the victim perspective towards a systemic restorative justice alternative
- Salient themes towards a victim perspective and the limitations of restorative justice: some concluding comments
- Index
