| Description |
1 online resource (269 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure Series |
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Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure Series
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| Contents |
Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Instruments -- Case Law -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Context -- Research question -- Methodology -- Contribution to knowledge -- Structure -- Part I Historical context -- Chapter 2 A contextual study of victim centrality in eighteenth-century Britain -- Introduction -- The eighteenth century -- Politics -- The victim of crime -- In the popular imagination -- Compounding -- Conclusion |
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Chapter 3 The causes and outcomes of the exclusion of victims from the nineteenth century Irish justice system -- Introduction -- The nineteenth-century causes of victim exclusion -- A fading noblesse oblige and a laissez-faire revolution -- Urbanisation within an industrialising Ireland -- Greater resident numbers move to cities -- Problems with the victim-centred system are emphasised -- The prevalent hesitancy regarding pursuing actions -- Britain's closest colony lists towards revolution -- British hegemonic rule becomes almost impossible |
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The "fear of the crowd" and a move from "status to contract" -- Disorder sees social unrest become a persistent Irish issue -- The"Leviathan State" engenders punitive advancements -- Novel organisations begin dictating chastisement -- Reform alters regulation of juridical frames -- Traditionally overlooked transgressions Are prosecuted -- The impact of victim exclusion in nineteenth-century Britain -- Punishment becomes successfully centralised -- Conclusion -- Part II Sociological transformation -- Chapter 4 Feminism and victimology highlight hidden victimisation -- Introduction -- Victimology |
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The birth of the study of victims -- Feminism -- Consciousness-raising and -changing -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Domestic drivers of change re-establish the victim -- Introduction -- Reported crime rates-from stability to disorder -- The low crime society of the 1940s and 1950s -- The Evental moments that qualitatively changed crime -- Watershed moments in Irish criminal history -- The evolution of victim advocacy in Ireland -- The emergence of the victim's voice in the public sphere -- Media reporting -- Graphic and pervasive crime portrayals -- Mass victimisation surveys |
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Data suggests an increase in the reporting of victimisation -- Victims of child abuse -- The victim in the consciousness of the Irish people -- Conclusion -- Part III Legal reformative evolution -- Chapter 6 Charting the Irish victim's juridical re-integration-the evolution of the victim as a rights bearer in Ireland -- Introduction -- Supranational instruments provide victims with entitlements -- International law courts allocate privileges to victims -- The Irish judiciary recognise the victim as a rights holder -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7 The legal reincorporation of the crime victim |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Introduction |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781000883800 |
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1000883809 |
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