Child Victims - Crime, Impact, and Criminal Justice

Zusatztext `I know of nothing similar to date.'Tina Eadie, Nottingham University Informationen zum Autor Jane Morgan, who died in the summer of 1992, was the author of Conflict and Order: The Police and Labour Disputes in England and Wales 1900-1939 (Clarendon Press, 1987) and co-author (with her husband, famous OUP author Kenneth O. Morgan) of Portrait of a Progressive: The Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison (Clarendon Press 1980).Lucia Zedner is the author of Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England (Clarendon Press, 1991). Klappentext Filling a serious gap between the literature on victimization and general social policy on children! Child Victims explores the range and extent of crimes committed against children and assesses their impact. For the first time! testimony of over two hundred children gives clear voice to their experiences! views! and needs. Morgan and Zedner examine how children attain the status of victims in the criminal justice system. They scrutinize each stage of the legal process that the child encounters! while contrasting the specialist response of the support services to the experience of the child going through a system designed for adults. The work concludes with a number of recommendations for future policy. Zusammenfassung Based on the testimony of over 200 children who have been victims of a wide range of crimes this book gives voice for the first time to their experiences, their views, and their needs. The authors contrast the treatment of children who are victims of sexual abuse with those who are victims of other crimes.

Product details

• Authors: Morgan, Jane Morgan, Jane (Late Lecturer in Law Morgan, Jane Zedner Morgan, Sally Morgan, Morgan Jane, Morgan Zedner, Lucia Zedner, Zedner Lucia
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.03.1992
• EAN: 9780198257004
• ISBN: 978-0-19-825700-4
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Clarendon Paperbacks; Clarendon Paperbacks
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Child welfare, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Child welfare and youth services, Child abuse, Criminal law: procedure and offences