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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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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
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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