Crime, Victims and Policy: International Contexts, Local Experiences (Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology)

This Book Provides Critically Examines How Recent International Developments In Victims Theory And Policy Are Experienced Within Specific Local Contexts. The Chapters Approach Key Criminological Issues Including The Experience Of Criminal Justice Agencies, Policy Formulation, The Construction Of Victim Identities And The 'discovery' Of New Victims. Introduction. Victims Research, Theory And Policy: The Role Of Local Context; Stuart Ross And Dean Wilson -- 1. Decolonising Indigenous Victimisation; Chris Cunneen And Simone Rowe -- 2. Environmental Victimology And Ecological Justice; Rob White -- 3. Victimisation, Citizenship And Gender: Interrogating State Responses; Marie Segrave And Rebecca Powell -- 4. Justice For Rape Victims? The Spirit May Sound Willing But The Flesh Remains Weak; Jan Jordan -- 5. Competing Conceptions Of Victims Of Domestic Violence Within Legal Processes; Julie Stubbs And Janet Wangmann -- 6. Care Bears And Crime Fighters: Police Operational Styles And Victims Of Crime; Dean Wilson And Marie Segrave -- 7. Victim Impact Statements, Sentencing And Contemporary Standards Of Fairness In The Courtroom; Tracey Booth -- 8. Satisfied? Exploring Victims' Justice Judgements; Robyn Holder -- 9. Victims In The Australian Criminal Justice System: Principles, Policy And (distr)action; Stuart Ross -- 10. The Evolution Of Victims' Rights And Services In Australia; Michael O'connell. Edited By Dean Wilson, Stuart Ross. Crime, Victims and Policy brings together the work of leading international scholars to examine how the experience of victims of crime, and the formulation of policies and theory that impact upon them, are translated and experienced within specific local contexts. The collection examines questions of key concern to scholars interested in the contexts and experiences of 'victims of crime' both within and beyond criminal justice systems. The chapters assembled here cover crucial questions, including the Eurocentric nature of conventional victimological approaches, the limitations of legal definitions of victims, the construction of victim identities, experiences of the criminal justice system, the policy making process and the 'discovery' of new victims. Importantly, a central theme of this collection is how the local contexts of postcolonial societies within the southern hemisphere both reflect and diverge from international developments in victim experience, policy and practice Front Matter....Pages i-xii Introduction....Pages 1-9 Decolonising Indigenous Victimisation....Pages 10-32 Environmental Victimology and Ecological Justice....Pages 33-52 Victimisation, Citizenship and Gender: Interrogating State Responses....Pages 53-83 Justice for Rape Victims? The Spirit May Sound Willing, but the Flesh Remains Weak....Pages 84-106 Competing Conceptions of Victims of Domestic Violence within Legal Processes....Pages 107-132 Care Bears and Crime-Fighters: Police Operational Styles and Victims of Crime....Pages 133-160 Victim Impact Statements, Sentencing and Contemporary Standards of Fairness in the Courtroom....Pages 161-183 Satisfied? Exploring Victims’ Justice Judgments....Pages 184-213 Victims in the Australian Criminal Justice System: Principles, Policy and (Distr)action....Pages 214-239 The Evolution of Victims’ Rights and Services in Australia....Pages 240-277 Back Matter....Pages 279-284