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Goodey, Victims and Victimology: Research, Policy and Practice (Pearson Education, 2005) and Dignan, Understanding Victims and Restorative Justice (Open University Press, 2005) are both good overviews of the subject. On the problems entailed in researching victims see Walklate, 'Researching Victims', in King and Wincup (eds), Doing Research on Crime and Justice (Oxford University Press, 2000). For contemporary academic, policy, and political debates on the nature, extent, and impact of criminal victimization and policy responses to it see Walklate, Handbook on Victims and Victimology (Willan, 2007, forthcoming). On the development of the victims' movement, see Rock, Constructing Victims' Rights: The Home Office, New Labour, and Victims (Oxford University Press, 2004). Good collections of essays include Crawford and Goodey, Integrating a Victim Perspective within Criminal Justice (Ashgate Dartmouth, 2000) and Hoyle and Young, New Visions of Crime Victims (Hart Publishing, 2002). The role of the victim in the criminal justice system is an area of lively debate (Cape, Reconcilable Rights? Analysing the Tension between Victims and Defendants, Legal Action Group, 2004). Classic texts, including Christie's 'Conflicts as Property', can be found in Johnstone, A Restorative Justice Reader: Texts, Sources, Context (Willan, 2003). On restorative justice see Braithwaite, Crime, Shame and Reintegration (Cambridge University Press, 1989) and Braithwaite, 'Restorative Justice: Assessing Optimistic and Pessimistic Accounts', Crime and Justice (1999), and Strang, Repair or Revenge: Victims and Restorative Justice (Clarendon Press, 2002). For an overview of its international development see Miers, 'The International Development of Restorative Justice: A Comparative Review', in Johnstone and van Ness (eds), Restorative Justice Handbook (Willan, 2006). Of the many edited collections on restorative justice, its potential, and its limits, see von Hirsch et al., Restorative Justice and Criminal Justice: Competing or Reconcilable Paradigms? (Hart Publishing, 2003) and Johnstone and Van Ness, Handbook of Restorative Justice (Willan, 2006).
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