What do victims want from the CJS? What they don’t want?
• Victim policies: Key policy developments and examples
Victim compensation scheme (1964)
Victims code (2006, 2013, 2015, 2020)
‘Getting it Right for Victims and Witnesses’ (2012)
• Why it is so difficult to develop...
Victims and the Criminal Justice System
Adversarial Justice
Week 7
SGM2058: Victimology
2022/23
Dr Riikka Kotanen
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• What do victims want from the CJS? What they don’t want?
• Victim policies: Key policy developments and examples
Victim compensation scheme (1964)
Victims code (2006, 2013, 2015, 2020)
‘Getting it Right for Victims and Witnesses’ (2012)
• Why it is so difficult to develop a victim centred CJS?
(I) Impact of Victimisation
(II) Attritional logic of the CJS
(III) Bureau-professional ‘logics’ of the CJS
(IV) Offender focus of the CJS
(V) Adversarial justice and the adversarial nature of Due Process
• Victim friendly policies in action: Practical solutions and VPS
Key concepts: Victim policy, victim compensation, problematisation of the
victim, attrition, attritional logic, adversarial justice system, victim persona
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