Victims and Criminal Justice is the first study of its kind to
examine both the origins and impacts of key legal, procedural, and
institutional changes introduced in England and Wales to encourage
and govern prosecution. It sets out how crime victims' experiences
of, and engagement with, the process of criminal justice changed
dramatically between the late seventeenth and late twentieth
centuries. Where victims once drove the English criminal justice
system, bringing prosecutions as complainants and prosecutors,
giving evidence as witnesses, putting up personal rewards for the
recovery of lost goods or claim rewards for securing convictions,
by the end of this period, victims had been firmly displaced as the
state took virtually full responsibility for the process of
prosecution. Combining qualitative analysis of a range of textual
sources with quantitative analysis of large datasets featuring over
200,000 criminal prosecutions, the authors explore how victims were
defined in law, what the law allowed and encouraged them to do, who
they were in social and economic terms, how they participated in
the criminal justice system, why many were unwilling or unable to
engage in that system, and why some campaigned for specific rights.
In exploring the shift in victim participation in criminal trials,
Victims and Criminal Justice places current policy debates in a
much-needed critical historical context.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Clarendon Studies in Criminology |
| Release date: |
September 2023 |
| Authors: |
Pamela Cox
(Professor of Sociology and Social History)
• Robert Shoemaker
(Emeritus Professor of History)
• Heather Shore
(Professor of History)
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
320 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-284648-8 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
0-19-284648-5 |
| Barcode: |
9780192846488 |
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