Victims of crime : policy and practice in criminal justice /
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| Author / Creator: | Hall, Matthew, 1967- |
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| Imprint: | Cullompton, Devon ; Portland, Or. : Willan Pub., 2009. |
| Description: | x, 262 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7704213 |
Table of Contents:
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Victims, victimology and policy-making
- Researching victims
- Victims in academia and politics
- Raising questions
- Methodology
- Book structure
- 2. Victims in criminal justice: rights, services and vulnerability
- Victim 'rights'
- Facilities, services and support for victims
- Vulnerable and intimidated victims as witnesses
- Ways forward
- 3. Victims of crime: a policy chain?
- Victim policies?
- Interpreting the 'policy'
- Victims and witnesses: shaping the 'policy'
- Politics, pressures and influences: deconstructing the 'policy chain'
- A policy chain?
- 4. A narrative-based model of victim-centredness in criminal trials
- Storytelling and narrative
- Stories in criminal trials
- Victims' narratives and account-making at the heart of criminal justice
- 5. Victims in criminal trials: victims at court
- The Witness Service
- Prosecutors and victims
- Wider facilities and information at court
- Waiting at court
- Domestic violence: 'one on its own'?
- Victims at court
- 6. Victims in criminal trials: the trial itself
- Calling witnesses
- Giving evidence
- Reactions to evidence
- Special measures
- The impact of crime in criminal trials
- Victims and witnesses after trials
- Victims at the heart of criminal justice: principles or practice?
- 7. Victims 'at the heart' of criminal justice: a discussion
- What would it mean to have a victim-centred criminal justice system?
- What factors have driven this 'policy'?
- What has putting victims 'at the heart' of the system meant so far in practice?
- Final points
- References
- Index