Victims and Criminal Justice

Pamela Cox is a Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Essex. Her teaching, research and writing spans social history, crime history and interdisciplinary social science. She led the interdisciplinary ESRC project on Victims' Access to Justice that inspired this book. She is a member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Criminology and has served as chair of the editorial board of Cultural and Social History.Robert Shoemaker has been Professor of History at the University of Sheffield since 1991. He has published widely on the history of crime and justice, gender, and London in the 'long' eighteenth century. He is author, co-author, or co-editor of seven books, was a founding director of the Old Bailey Proceedings Online, and co-director of other major historical web resources including Connected Histories, Locating London's Past, London Lives, and the Digital Panopticon. With Tim Hitchcock, he was awarded the 2011 History Today/Longman Trustees Award for contributions to history through digital projects 'that point the way to the future of the discipline'.Heather Shore is Professor of History at Manchester Metropolitan University and previously worked at Leeds Beckett University, University of Portsmouth, and University of Northampton. She has published widely in the field of crime and penal history. She is the author of two monographs, Artful Dodgers: Youth and Crime in Early Nineteenth-Century London (1999) and London's Criminal Underworlds, c. 1720 - c. 1930: A Social and Cultural History (2015); and the co-author of Young Criminal Lives: Life Courses from 1850 (2017). She has led and collaborated on awards from the AHRC, ESRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust.

The CJS prioritised the prosecution and incarceration of offenders over the rights of victims. This book bestows on readers valuable insights into the first-hand experiences of victims, emphasising the importance of inclusion and empowerment. The authors make a compelling case for a more receptive, objective and considerate CJS.