Overview
- 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’
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology (PSVV)
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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.
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Keywords
- Criminology
- Victimology
- Criminal law
- Criminal policy
- Conservative Government
- 2012 EU Directive
- Law
- Culture
- Public Policy
- Support Services for Victims
- Compensation
- Restitution and Restorative Justice
- Victim Policy Networks
- State responses
- Victims’ Code
- Human trafficking
- domestic violence
- sexual violence
- British Politics
Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Matthew Hall is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Lincoln Law School, the University of Lincoln, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victims of Crime
Book Subtitle: Construction, Governance and Policy
Authors: Matthew Hall
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64589-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-64588-9Published: 31 January 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87828-7Published: 04 June 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-64589-6Published: 18 January 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-9355
Series E-ISSN: 2947-9363
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 344
Topics: Critical Criminology, Crime and Society, Criminological Theory, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Public Policy, British Politics