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Constructing Victims' Rights - The Home Office, New Labour, and Victims (Hardcover, New)
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Constructing Victims' Rights - The Home Office, New Labour, and Victims (Hardcover, New)
Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
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Despite plentiful discussion at various times, the personal victim
has traditionally been afforded almost no formal role in the
criminal justice process. Victims' rights have always met with
stout opposition from both judges and the Lord Chancellor, who have
guarded defendants' rights; the maintenance of
professionally-controlled and emotionally unencumbered trials; and
the doctrine that crime is at heart an offence against society,
State, or Sovereign. Constructing Victims' Rights provides a
detailed account of how this opposition was overcome, and of the
progressive redefinition of victims of crime, culminating in 2003
in proposals for awarding near-rights to victims of crime. Based
upon extensive observation, primary papers, and interviews, Paul
Rock examines changes in the forms of criminal justice
policy-making within the New Labour Government, observing how they
shaped political representations and activities centred on victims
of crime. He reveals how the issues of new managerialism,
restorative justice, human rights, race and racism (after the death
of Stephen Lawrence), and the treatment of rape victims after the
trial of Ralston Edwards came to form a critical mass that required
ordering and reconstruction. Constructing Victims' Rights unpicks
and explains the resultant battery of proposals and the deft policy
manoeuvre contained in the Domestic Violence, Crime, and Victims
Bill of 2003. This, the solution to a seemingly intractable
problem, was a work of finesse, proposing on the one hand, the
imposition of statutory duties on criminal justice agencies and the
granting of access to an Ombudsman, and on the other, a National
Victims' Advisory Panel that would afford victims a symbolic voice,
and a symbolic champion: a Commissioner for Victims and Witnesses.
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