Courting Compassion: Victims, Policy, and the Question of Justice

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Abstract This article reviews the relative success and failure of ‘rebalancing’ the criminal justice system with the victim in mind. It suggests a number of reasons for the partial impact of this agenda and considers the extent to which the recourse to compassion in political and policy rhetoric reflects a deeply‐embedded conceptual failure in respect of victim‐oriented policy.

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