1st Edition

Victims and Policy-Making A Comparative Perspective

By Matthew Hall Copyright 2011
296 Pages
by Willan

296 Pages
by Willan

Victims of crime are now the subjects of intense policy attention and reform across most developed nations, whilst also receiving sustained attention at the highest levels of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, and many other transnational organizations. Such moves have been fostered by the continued development of the international victims' movement and driven by a host of complex and... Read more
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

Biography

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.