David Miers: 3 books
by William Twining, David Miers
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2010
New to English law? Need to know how rules are made, interpreted and applied? This popular and well-established textbook will show you how. It simplifies legal method by combining examples with an account of rules in general: the who, what, why and how of interpretation. Starting with standpoint and...
Criminal Injuries Compensation
State and Offender Compensation for Violent Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The 2012 Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme (CICS) deals with some 33,000 applications for compensation each year. It has, since 1964, been one of the principal means by which the state aims to meet victims' expectations following an offence of violence, but it also displays a clear doctrinal effort...
Reconceptualizing Critical Victimology
Interventions and Possibilities
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Since the 1960s, the field of victimology has developed into a variegated discipline with its own theoretical and methodological traditions. In the early 1990s two texts were published—Towards a Critical Victimology (Fattah, 1992) and Critical Victimology (Mawby and Walklate, 1994)—that concretized...