Victims and criminal justice : a history / Pamela Cox, Robert Shoemaker, Heather Shore.
"This chapter provides an introduction to the work. It opens with three historical cases which demonstrate crime victims' changing experiences of, and engagement with, the process of criminal justice between the late seventeenth and late twentieth centuries. It outlines existing research o...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Clarendon studies in criminology.
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| Summary: | "This chapter provides an introduction to the work. It opens with three historical cases which demonstrate crime victims' changing experiences of, and engagement with, the process of criminal justice between the late seventeenth and late twentieth centuries. It outlines existing research on the history of victims and the development of the field of victimology, before moving on to outline the methodology and key datasets used in the study. It provides an overview of general patterns of prosecution over time and finishes by summarising the aims and structure of the book"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 279 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780192846488 0192846485 |