Victims Of Serious Crime Research Articles

Provision of Post-Sentence Advice to Victims of Serious Crime: Perceptions in One British Probation Service

Support for victims of serious crime is an essential component of any comprehensive community safety strategy. In the light of recent developments, this paper assesses the evolving policy in one British probation service, through the eyes of the victims who received support and the probation officers and Victim Support workers who provided it. The findings are then considered in the light of the varied pattern of help provided in different probation areas.

The Victims Charter and the Release of Long-Term Prisoners

Based on his recent research, Peter Johnston, Senior Probation Officer responsible for implementing the Victims Charter in West Yorkshire, considers the practice and management dilemmas presented by this new expectation of contact with the victims of serious crime.

Use of hypnosis in criminology: discussion paper.

Memories of events which are unremarkable may pass unrecorded or may fade with the passage of time. In any situation of stress, anxiety may cloud the memory of the incident and in the case of some intensely frightening or humiliating experience such material may not be subject to voluntary conscious recall and may be repressed. A technique for uncovering certain 'forgotten' or repressed memories with the use of hypnosis is described. A similar method has been used in order to retrieve such memories in the investigation of witnesses and victims of serious crime. Nevertheless, various aspects of the overall validity of such a procedure have been called into question and for this reason the results of numerous experiments and the conclusions arrived at in many papers are discussed. It is emphasized that a rigid code of conduct be followed if hypnosis is to be used as an investigatory tool.