Constructing Victims' Rights The Home Office, Ne Labour, and Victims [Hardcover]

Based upon extensive observation, primary papers, and interviews, Paul Rock examines changes in the forms of criminal justice policy-making within the New Labour Government, observing how they shaped political representations and activities centred on victims of crime. He reveals how the issues of new managerialism, restorative justice, human rights, race and racism , and the treatment of rape victims form a critical mass that required ordering and reconstruction.


Preface
Acknowledgements
1. Prelude: Crime and Victims at the Turn of the Century
2. The Home Office at the Turn of the Century
3. Committees
4. The Victim as Consumer
5. The Victim and Human Rights
6. The Victim and Compensation
7. The Victim and Reparation
8. The Vulnerable or Intimidated Victim
9. The Victim and Race
10. Consummation
11. Conclusion
Index

The text provides no quick or easy answers, but thorough background on how and why victims' rights evolved as they did in the UK. --The Law and Politics Book Review

Paul Rockis Professor of Social Institutions at the London School of Economics and Political Science.