Table of Contents
Preface, Anthony Bottoms and Julian Roberts 1. The Victim, the State, and Civil Society, Matt Matravers 2. The 'Duty to Understand': What Consequences to Victim Participation?, Anthony Bottoms 3. The Status of Crime Victims and Witnesses in the Twenty-First Century, Helen Reeves and Peter Dunn 4. 'Rebalancing the Criminal Justice System in Favour of the Victim': The Costly Consequences of Populist Rhetoric, Michael Tonry 5. The Phenomenon of Victim-Offender Overlap: A Study of Offences against Households, Anthony Bottoms and Andrew Costello 6. The Victim and the Prosecutor, John Spencer 7. Victims at Court: Necessary Accessories or Principal Players at Cozijn Centre Stage?, Joanna Shapland and Matthew Hall 8. 'Hearing Victims of Crime': The Delivery of Impact Statements as Ritual Behaviour in Four London Trials for Murder and Manslaughter, Paul Rock 9. Communication at Sentencing: The Expressive Function of Victim Impact Statements, Julian Roberts and Edna Erez 10. Victim input at Parole: Probative or Prejudicial?, Nicola Padfield and Julian Roberts. Index