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Victims’ Access to Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Victims’ Access to Justice: Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Author: Pamela Cox; Sandra Walklate
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780367750428

Published In: August 2022
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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Paperback Edition ISBN: 9780367750435

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Why have many victim-centred policy initiatives met with so little success? How have those initiatives unfolded differently in different global jurisdictions over different periods of time? This book aims to address these questions.

Building on a major research project exploring victims’ access to justice over time and place, Victims' Access to Justice considers the potentialities for victims’ participation in criminal justice systems and in victim programmes both in historical and comparative context. It considers a range of topics: ways of identifying and accommodating victims’ needs and senses of justice; the impacts for criminal justice systems of seeking to accommodate these; and the ways in which adversarial criminal justice systems, in particular, may enable or inhibit victim participation.

This is essential reading for all those engaged in understanding and working with victims of crime.

1.Introduction: Victims’ Access to Justice: A (brief) contemporary history 1945-2015

Pamela Cox and Sandra Walklate

Section One: Mapping the historical continuities of victimhood

2.The Crown against…: The Victim and the State in the Pursuit of Criminal Prosecution, 1840-1985

Ruth Lamont

3.Divergent victims in the Old Bailey, 1950-1979

Heather Shore and Lucy Williams

4.Using crime survey data to track and measure access to justice: problems and possibilities

Elisa Impara

5.The changing landscape of service delivery for victims of crime in England and Wales in the last fifty years

Rob I. Mawby

Section Two: The Legacies of adversarialism for victims’ access to justice

6.Gender, Sexual Violence, and Access to Justice in India’

Ravinder Barn and Ved Kumari

7."I want your tears and I want them to be real:" exploring the construction of "ideal" and "non-ideal" victims in the Independent Assessment Process for Indian Residential School abuse

Konstantin Petoukhov

8.Analysing the Victim Review Scheme of Decisions not to Prosecute in England and Wales and Within Comparative Jurisdictions

Marie Manikis and Mary Iliadis

Section Three: Victims’ access to justice: lessons from non-adversarial jurisdictions

9.The Swedish Welfare Model and the Development of Social Services for Crime Victims

Kerstin Svensson and Carina Gallo

10.Victim participatory rights in Dutch criminal proceedings: A review of research on their potential effectiveness

Maarten Kunst, Joyce Schot and Antony Pemberton

11.The critical presence of absent victims in criminal policy: Fragments of Spanish legislation

Gema Varona

12.Evolution of Victims’ Access to Criminal Justice in Brazil

Thiago Pierobom de Ávila