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VICTIMS OF CRIME - MATTHEW HALL GEBUNDEN

This volume critically engages with the development of official policy and reform in relation
to the support of victims of crime both within and beyond the criminal justice system of
England and Wales. Since the election of the Conservative Liberal Democrat Coalition Government
in May 2010 it is argued that victimization has increasingly taken on a greater cultural
resonance both in England and Wales and in other industrialised countries. Images of terrorism
public debates around the handling of sexual victimisation by the courts  and the issue of
child sexual exploitation have catapulted victim issues into the public consciousness like
never before ¿ generating a new form of what Hall terms ¿victim capital¿. As such  this book
utilises a combination of cultural victimological analysis  governance theory and legal
scholarship to address fundamental questions concerning the drivers and impact of victim policy
in England and Wales in the 21st century. An engaging and original study  this book will be of
particular interest to scholars of victimology and the criminal justice system  as well as
activists and policy makers.

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