Just interactions? Victims’ accounts of their involvement with criminal justice agencies in England and Wales

Robinson, Amanda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5071-850X and Eisenstadt, Nathan 2017. Just interactions? Victims’ accounts of their involvement with criminal justice agencies in England and Wales. Presented at: American Society of Criminology (2017), Philadelphia, PA, 15 -18 November 2017.

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Abstract

The concept of a ‘justice gap’ refers to a gap in understandings of how ‘justice’ is understood, sought, and experienced. This presentation draws upon the qualitative phase of a large ESRC funded study in the UK, involving n=228 interviews with victim-survivors of gender-based violence to investigate how these participants perceive ‘justice’. The interviews enabled in-depth recollections of their interactions with justice agencies, which were coded using themes identified in the literature on procedural justice. Findings reveal that these are not ‘just interactions’…

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Speech)
Status:	Unpublished
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Universities' Police Science Institute (UPSI) Crime and Security Research Institute (CSURI) Cardiff Centre for Crime, Law and Justice (CCLJ)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform H Social Sciences > HQ The family. Marriage. Woman
Funders:	ESRC
Date of Acceptance:	November 2017
Last Modified:	09 Apr 2024 10:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/167527

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