Can a victim's experience really be improved purely by diminishing the rights of offenders and increasing penalties for offending?
Writing at a time when the UK is beginning to accept that an offender-led criminal justice system cannot provide direct benefits to the victim of crime, Dr Brian Williams lays bare the assumptions about victims and offenders that currently restrict efficient policy-making. He evaluates proposed solutions, including restorative justice and informal community justice, and draws on evidence and experiences from the UK and around the world to investigate which measures have proved effective and how criminal justice policies might be redressed.
This book provides a thorough and comprehensive analysis of the topic for students of criminology and victimology, and is essential reading for practitioners in social work and probation officers.
- ISBN10 6610349436
- ISBN13 9786610349432
- Publish Date 28 May 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 7 August 2012
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Jessica Kingsley Publishers Ltd
- Format eBook
- Pages 178
- Language English