Abstract
This final chapter will bring together themes explored throughout the previous six to offer some forward-looking conclusions concerning the constitution and impact of policies ostensibly aimed at victims of crime introduced in England & Wales in the wake of the 2010 coalition government and those which followed it. In so doing the chapter will be split into three main sections. In the first it will seek to succinctly conceptualise the processes and drivers by which victim policy is constructed and refined in the early twenty-first century. The chapter will then turn to examine the implementation and governance of victim reforms during this period. This will be followed by a discussion of how the criminal justice process itself has been adapted as a result of these reforms and what victims of crime might have “gained” from said policies.
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See p. 242 of this volume.
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On which, see p. 15 in this volume.
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More recently the NSCPP has decried apparent delays in bringing the section into force (Elgot 2017).
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See pp. 63 and 108 of this volume.
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See Chap. 5.
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Under the post June 2017 government’s proposed Courts Bill.
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Under s.27.
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On which, see p. 170 of this volume.
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See p. 153 of this volume.
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Hall, M. (2017). Victims of Crime: Constructions, Governance and Policy. In: Victims of Crime. Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64589-6_7
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