• Media type: E-Book
  • Title: Constructing victims' rights : the Home Office, New Labour, and victims
  • Contributor: Rock, Paul Elliott [Author]
  • Published: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004
  • Published in: Clarendon studies in criminology
  • Extent: 1 online resource (xxv, 583 p.)
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199275496.001.0001
  • ISBN: 9780191699832; 0191699837
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  • Keywords: Victims of crime Government policy England ; Victims of crime Government policy Wales ; Victims of crime Legal status, laws etc England ; Victims of crime Legal status, laws, etc Wales
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
  • Description: Based on extensive observation, primary papers and interviews this text presents a detailed account which follows the evolution of a set of government policies implemented by New Labour that culminated in 2003 in proposals for awarding near-rights to victims of crime in England and Wales.