A history of victims of crime : how they reclaimed their rights / Stephen J. Strauss-Walsh.

Abingdon, Oxon [U.K.] ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

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9781032188225 hardcover
1032188227 hardcover
9781032188249 paperback
1032188243 paperback
9781003256434 electronic book
9781000883879 electronic book
9781000883800 electronic book

xxv, 242 pages ; 25 cm.

18510538
(OCoLC)1355208564

"This book examines the evolution of the contemporary crime victim's procedural place within modern western societies. Taking the history of the Irish crime victim as a case study, the work charts the place of victims within criminal justice over time. This evolves from the expansive latitude that they had during the eighteenth century, to their major relegation to witness and informer in the nineteenth, and back to a more contemporary recapturing of some of their previous centrality. The book also studies what this has meant for the position of suspects and offenders as well as the population more generally. Therefore, some analysis is devoted to examining its impact on an offender's right to fair trial and social forms. It is held that the modern crime victim has transcended its position of marginality. This happened not only in law, but as the consequence of the victim's new role as a key socio-political stakeholder. This work flags the importance of victim rights conferrals, and the social transformations that engendered such trends. In this way victim re-emergence is evidenced as being not just a legal change, but a consequence of several more recent socio-cultural transformations in our societies. The book will be of interest to researchers, academics and policy makers in criminal law, human rights law, criminology and legal history"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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