Showing papers by "Paul Rock published in 1988"
TL;DR: In Canada, the federal Government launched its Justice for Victims of Crime Initiative and spent money trying to prompt a relatively inert "private sector" into organizing itself as discussed by the authors. And in England and Wales, a rapidly expanding National Association of Victims Support Schemes repeatedly petitioned an apparently unresponsive Government for funding.
Abstract: Policies and programmes for the victims of crime are beginning to emerge in Canada, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. In Canada, the federal Government launched its Justice for Victims of Crime Initiative and spent money trying to prompt a relatively inert "private sector" into organising itself. In England and Wales, a rapidly expanding National Association of Victims Support Schemes repeatedly petitioned an apparently unresponsive Government for funding. When it was offered appreciable support, its character and methods were set. Federal and central Governments display important differences in their style, rate and structure of policy-making, and it is those differences which explain some of the contrasts in the social organisation of relief for victims of crime.
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TL;DR: A survey of contemporary criminology in Britain can be found in this article, where the authors describe the negotiated order which has begun to emerge among the core members of a generation of criminologists who have worked together and known each other for some two decades.
Abstract: There has been no adequate survey of contemporary criminology in Britain. The discipline has evolved quickly and erratically, appearing sometimes to advance in opposing directions, and it has been more than a little difficult to make sense of its progress. There are only a few criminologists in post who might have wished to report its development, and they have at best recon structed criminology in their own image. Indeed, any attempt to interpret current movements must refract the preoccupations of the observer. My own description will be just such a special organization of perspectives. It could not be otherwise. I shall focus on a small number of themes that I regard as important although I am aware that others might well have reviewed the field quite differently. In a short article, there cannot be a proper discussion of many things. For instance, I must neglect analysis of the important but vastly intricate exchanges that have occurred between British and foreign ideas about crime and control. British criminology has evolved in an intellectual environment constituted by others' thought, just as it has attained a modest presence elsewhere, but I shall not pay attention to that history. I shall concentrate instead upon the development of British criminology in Britain. In particular, I shall describe the negotiated order which has begun to emerge amongst the core members of a generation of criminologists who have worked together and known each other for some two decades. In the autumn of 1986, for the purposes of this article, I conducted a census of all the 160 British university departments and institutes in which criminol ogists might be found. I also approached the Home Office Research and Planning Unit with questions about its staff and funding. I did, of course, appreciate that criminologists were to be found elsewhere, particularly in the polytechnics, but I could not undertake more than a sample survey of academic institutions in the United Kingdom. It is uncertain what effect the addition of polytechnics and colleges of further education might have had on my argument. Excluding the Research and Planning Unit, 92 departments replied, and their replies produced some elementary demographic information about 118 specialist criminologists. Thirty-seven criminologists worked in law departments, eight in psychology departments, thirty-three in sociology
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