Victims and Policy-Making: A Comparative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781843928256 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 284 str.

Hall, Matthew

Opis

This volume sets out to contrast and compare the development of policies related to victims of crime and their place within the criminal justice systems in nine separate jurisdictions (the USA, the Netherlands, England and Wales, Scotland, the Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa).

Spis treści

1. Victims: an international movement 2. Defining 'victimhood' across jurisdictions? 3. Victims in international policy-making 4.Victims in national policy-making 5. Victim 'rights'? 6. Victims in criminal justice systems 7. Victims' compensation and resorative justice 8. Conclusions

O autorze

Matthew Hall graduated with a Ph.D. from the University of Sheffield in 2007, having previously graduated from Sheffield's MA in International Criminology programme. He is now Lecturer in Law and Criminology at Sheffield where he teaches many aspects of criminology and victimology, as well as criminal law and the law of evidence. He is presently Book Reviews Editor for the International Review of Victimology.