Victims, Culture and Society

<p>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.</p><p>Building on a major research project exploring victims’ access to justice over time and place, <i>Victims'' Access to Justice</i> 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.</p><p>This is essential reading for all those engaged in understanding and working with victims of crime.</p>