Child Victims

Jane Morgan, who died in the summer of 1992, was the author of Conflict and Order: The Police and Labour Disputes in England and Wales 1900-1939 (Clarendon Press, 1987) and co-author (with her husband, famous OUP author Kenneth O. Morgan) of Portrait of a Progressive: The Political Career of Christopher, Viscount Addison (Clarendon Press 1980).Lucia Zedner is the author of Women, Crime, and Custody in Victorian England (Clarendon Press, 1991).

• Introducing child victims - the problem of child abuse; children as victims of other crime - the evidence; the impact of crime on children; police policies and practices; policing - the experiences of child victims; the child victim, the prosecution process and the court; the social and welfare agencies - provision and response.

'This important book should be read by every magistrate (and judge) concerned with the criminal justice system. It is lucid, well-written and very thought-provoking.'Allan Levy, Q.C., The Magistrate, June 1992