A View from the Shadows

by Paul Rock

Possibly the first ethnographic study of policy-making in a Justice Ministry, this is a detailed empirical investigation of the evolution of the Canadian Federal Ministry of the Solicitor General's Justice for Victims of Crime Initiative. Tracing the beginnings of the initiative in the American victims' movement and academic victimology, it also discusses the work of senior Civil Servants who imported ideas about victims into the Ministry, and examines...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198255233
• ISBN13: 9780198255239
• Release Date: May 1987
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.8" x 8.8"