Victims of Crime and Community Justice

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2005年5月15日 - 176 頁

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.

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Introduction
9
Community justice and its implications for victims
27
Restorative justice and its implications for victims
57
Improving the position of victims of crime
87
Real improvements for victims of crime
112
Conclusions
127
REFERENCES
153
SUBJECT INDEX
169
AUTHOR INDEX
174
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第 58 頁 - Restorative justice is a process whereby all the parties with a stake in a particular offence come together to resolve collectively how to deal with the aftermath of the offence and its implications for the future.
第 14 頁 - The Government do not accept that the State is liable for injuries caused to people by the acts of others. The public does, however, feel a sense of responsibility for and sympathy with the innocent victim, and it is right that this feeling should find practical expression in the provision of compensation on behalf of the community.
第 30 頁 - ... that it is obvious that they can only be handled by the certified craftsman. With a clarification of the enemy, we are also able to specify the goal; let us reduce specialisation and particularly our dependence on the professionals within the crime control system to the utmost. The ideal is clear; it ought to be a court of equals representing themselves. When they are able to find a solution between themselves, no judges are needed. When they are not, the judges ought also to be their equals.
第 137 頁 - UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children...
第 14 頁 - Fry noted, and she drew a direct analogy to the industrial insurance program in concluding that "the logical way of providing for criminally inflicted injuries would be to tax every adult citizen * * * to cover a risk to which each is exposed.
第 154 頁 - Bowling, B. (1999) Violent Racism: Victimisation, Policing and Social Context, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Box, S. (1983) Power, Crime and Mystification, London: Tavistock.
第 153 頁 - Victim Vices, Victim Voices, and Impact Statements: On the Place of Emotion and the Role of Restorative Justice in Capital Sentencing', Crime and Delinquency, 49(4): 603-26.
第 68 頁 - The contract should always include reparation to the victim or wider community and a programme of activity designed primarily to prevent further offending. Where possible, it is recommended that reparation should have some relation to the offence itself.
第 71 頁 - Therefore, with the introduction of conferencing, came awareness of the need to incorporate different elements of 'cultural appropriateness' into the conference process. But the devising of a (white, bureaucratic) justice practice that is flexible and accommodating towards cultural differences does not mean that conferencing is an indigenous justice practice. Maxwell and Morris, who know the New Zealand situation well, are clear on this point: A distinction must be drawn between a system, which attempts...

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Dr Brian Williams was Professor of Community Justice and Victimology at De Montfort University in Leicester. He served on the Executive of the British Society of Criminology and was a volunteer training officer for a local Victim Support scheme. He published widely on victims of crime, including (as editor) Reparation and Victim-Focussed Social Work.

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