Victims in the magistrates' courts and crown court

Criminal Law Review

Volumn 1998, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 537-545

  Shapland, Joanna ^a   Bell, Emma ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BIRMINGHAM CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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References (9)

1. J. Shapland and D. Cohen, "Facilities for Victims: the Role of the Police and the Courts" [1987] Crim.L.R. 28-38.
2. Victim's Charter 1991 and Victim's Charter 1996, Home Office.
3. See M. Joutsen (ed.), Changing Victim Policy: the United Nations Victim Declaration and Recent Developments in Europe, Publication Series No. 16, HEUNI (1990) and J. Shapland "Fiefs and peasants: accomplishing change for victims in the criminal justice system", in M. Maguire and J. Pointing (eds), Victims of Crime: a New Deal? (Open University Press, (1988), pp. 187-194.
4. See M. Joutsen (ed.), Changing Victim Policy: the United Nations Victim Declaration and Recent Developments in Europe, Publication Series No. 16, HEUNI (1990) and J. Shapland "Fiefs and peasants: accomplishing change for victims in the criminal justice system", in M. Maguire and J. Pointing (eds), Victims of Crime: a New Deal? (Open University Press, (1988), pp. 187-194.
5. See JUSTICE, Victims in Criminal Justice (1998).
6. The list of petty sessional divisions, as well as the list of Crown Court buildings, was taken from the 1995/6 Shaw's Directory of Courts in the United Kingdom (1996), the publication used in the 1986 survey. The research was supported initially by the funds of the Institute for the Study of the Legal Profession at Sheffield University, but finance for data inputting and analysis was later provided by the Home Office.
7. P. Rock, The Social World of an English Crown Court (Clarendon Press, 1993).
8. It is important to bear in mind that this was a survey of main Crown Court buildings, not of Crown Court centres. It is possible that witness support might be available at another building in that Crown Court centre. Several of those without witness support were in the process of starting a service and we understand that, by mid-1997, there was an operational Witness Service at the main court buildings in all except one Crown Court centre.
9. V. Johnston, M. Leek, J. Shapland and P. Wiles, Crimes and Other Problems on Industrial Estates: Stage 1, Faculty of Law, University of Sheffield (1990).