Victims' Access to Justice

Historical and Comparative Perspectives

Pamela Cox, Sandra Walklate, Pamela Cox, Sandra Walklate

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000631593
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Geschichte
• Subtopic: Weltgeschichte

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Endorsements Page
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Author Biographies
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Victims’ Access to Justice: A (Brief) Contemporary History 1945–2015
• Section 1 Mapping the Historical Continuities of Victimhood
• Section 2 The Legacies of Adversarialism for Victims’ Access to Justice
• Section 3 Victims’ Access to Justice: Lessons from Non-adversarial Jurisdictions
• Index