Law Tort / Personal Injury

Criminal Injuries Compensation: State and Offender Compensation for Violent Crime

Edited by David Miers · Ben Collins · Nicholas Wikeley
Oxford University Press October 2018

Specifications

ISBN-13
9780198806622
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Publication
October 2018
Format
Hardback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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The 2012 Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS) deals with some 33,000 applications for compensation each year.

It has, since 1964, been one of the principal means by which the state aims to meet victims' expectations following an offence of violence, but it also displays a clear doctrinal effort to differentiate 'deserving' from 'undeserving' victims. Over much of the same period criminal courts and agencies have enjoyed powers to order offenders to pay compensation to their victims, most recently as an element of restorative justice.

Split into two parts, Criminal Injuries Compensation is an authoritative analysis of the statutory provisions governing these various remedies. Part One, State Compensation, analyses the Scheme's defining provisions: what constitutes 'a criminal injury', what persons and injuries may be compensated, the rules governing the victim's own conduct and character, the assessment of the award, and the procedures governing applications, appeals and judicial review.

Part Two, Offender Compensation, analyses the conditions under which a criminal court may make a compensation order as an element of its sentencing decision, concluding with the potential of restorative justice to deliver offender compensation to victims. The book also touches on the wider political and criminal justice context of compensation.

Written and edited by an expert academic and practitioner team, Criminal Injuries Compensation is an essential text for all those with an interest in understanding the statutory, judicial and administrative rules that govern state and offender payment of compensation to victims of violent crime.

Table of Contents

1: Introduction: Compensating Victims of Violent Crime: Purpose and context

Part 1: State Compensation
2: Criminal Injuries: Victimising Events
3: Defining and Proving a Personal Injury
4: Eligible Persons
5: Refusal and Reduction of an Award
6: Personal Injury, Fatal Injury, Deductions
7: Applications, Awards, Appeals and Judicial Reviews

Part 2: Offender Compensation
8: Eligibility: Compensable Persons and Injuries
9: Assessment of Compensation
10: Procedure: Applications, Awards, and Appeals
11: Scope, Eligibility, and Procedures

Conclusion
12: State and Offender Compensation for Criminal Injuries: Themes and Challenges

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