How prevalent is repeat victimisation and who does it affect? What is the overlap between being a victim and committing an offence, and how does this vary by, for example, crime type and demographic characteristics?

Background

We want to modernise the procedures and infrastructure of our courts and tribunals, leading an effective, efficient and coordinated justice system across all the civil, criminal and family justice jurisdictions.

Next steps

We can be contacted at the following email address: evidence_partnerships@justice.gov.uk.

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Areas of research interest

Related UKRI funded projects


  • Victims of crime, criminal justice and social exclusion

    I will use my institutional and AHRC leave to complete a book project, 'Victims of Crime, Social Exclusion and Criminal Justice'. This book will be a socio-legal analysis of the rights of victims of crime in the UK crimi...

    Funded by: AHRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Manchester

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project is a socio-legal analysis of the rights of victims of crime in the UK criminal justice system, which directly addresses the question of how prevalent repeat victimisation is and who it affects.

  • Victims' access to justice through English criminal courts, 1675 to the present

    This interdisciplinary project examines public access to justice in England over three centuries - from the 1670s to the present. Bringing together leading criminologists and crime historians, it will assemble and analys...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Essex

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project examines public access to justice in England over three centuries, which partially addresses the question of the overlap between being a victim and committing an offence, and how this varies by crime type and demographic characteristics.

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