Reparation and Victim-focused Social Work

Barbara Tudor is Area Victim/Offender Development Officer for the National Probation Service, West Midlands, UK.

• 1. Introduction, Brian Williams, De Montfort University, Leicester. 2. Compensating Victims of Crime in the European Union: The Case for State Restitution, Jo Goodey, Centre for International Crime Prevention, United Nations, Vienna. 3. Restorative Justice: The Choice between Bilateral Decision-making Power and Third Party Intervention, Jo-Anne Wemmers, School of Criminology, University of Montreal. 4. Family Group Conferencing: A Victim Perspective, Guy Masters, Australian National University. 5. Reparation Orders, Jim Dignan, University of Sheffield. 6. Responding to Victims of Crime in Rural Areas, Susan R. Moody, University of Dundee. 7. Supporting Victims of Racist Abuse and Violence, Charlotte Knight, De Montfort University, Leicester and Karen Chouan, De Montfort University, Leicester. 8. Probation Work With Victims of Crime, Barbara Tudor, Development Officer, West Midlands Probation Service. 9. Victim Impact Statements: Voices to be Heard in the Criminal Justice Process? Sandra Walklate, Manchester Metropolitan University. 10. Addressing Victim Issues in Pre-sentence Reports, Jane Dominey, Probation Officer, Cambridge. 11. Effective Work with Abusive Men: Listening to Women. David Morran, University of Stirling, Moira Andrew, Domestic Violence Probation Programme, Edinburgh and Rory Macrae, Domestic Violence Probation Programme, Edinburgh. Index.

This book will be of great interest to practitioners in Probation and Youth Offending Teams, Victim Support, Police and others who are involved in the delivery of services to victims if crime.