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Volume 2, Issue 4
1 October 2003
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Community Safety Journal
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Review Article| October 01 2003

A better deal for victims and witnesses?

Brian Williams
Victimology De Montfort University, Leicester
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2977-7097
Print ISSN: 1477-5883
© MCB UP Limited
2003
Community Safety Journal (2003) 2 (4): 11–13.
https://doi.org/10.1108/17578043200300044

This article reviews the Government's proposals for ‘putting victims at the heart of the criminal justice system’ (Criminal Justice Online, 2002) and argues that there is little that is new in the proposals. The new innovation is the proposed establishment of the post of Victims' Commissioner.

Keywords: Criminal justice, Victims, Witnesses
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