Comic · Oxford University Press, USA

Criminal Injuries Compensation

State and Offender Compensation for Violent Crime

"[This book provides] analysis of the statutory provisions governing these various remedies. Part One, state compensation, analyses the scheme's defining provisions: what constitutes 'a criminal injury', what persons and injuries may be compensated, the rules governing the victim's own conduct and character, the assessment of the award, and the procedures governing applications, appeals and judicial review. Part two, offender compensation, analyses the conditions under which a criminal court may make a compensation order as an element of its sentencing decision, concluding with the potential of restorative justice to deliver offender compensation to victims. The book also touches on the wider political and criminal justice context of compensation."--