Helping Victims of Crime: The Home Office and the Rise of Victim Support in England and Wales

by Paul Rock

This book examines the evolution of Government policies toward victims of crime in the United Kingdom, and follows the author's View from the Shadows, which detailed official responses to the victims' movement in Canada. It attempts a fourfold task: to show how central institutions fostered what the Home Office came to regard as significant policies for victims of crime in England and Wales; to use those examples of policy-making to scout the topography...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198254229
• ISBN13: 9780198254225
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.7" x 8.8"