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Victims of Crime

Construction, Governance and Policy

Palgrave Macmillan

Authors:

  1. Matthew Hall

    1. Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

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  • 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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  3. Victims in Public Policy

    • Matthew Hall
    Pages 49-98

  5. Victims and the Criminal Justice Process

    • Matthew Hall
    Pages 141-197

  7. Victim Capital and Victim Policy Networks

    • Matthew Hall
    Pages 241-281

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 303-344
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About this book

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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Authors and Affiliations

  • Lincoln Law School, University of Lincoln, Lincoln, United Kingdom

    Matthew Hall

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About the author

Matthew Hall is Professor of Law and Criminal Justice at Lincoln Law School, the University of Lincoln, UK. 
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