ABSTRACT
Whilst once it was realistic to argue that ‘the victim’ was not only the forgotten party in the criminal justice process but also in criminology, the development both of victim services and of academic victimology have drawn attention to this significant oversight. A veritable industry of ‘services’ has developed and a wide range of academic studies have focused upon these developments and the range of victims that they are designed to support. Indeed, so strong have these developments been, that a number of authors have referred to the emergence of an all-encompassing ‘victims movement’ (see Pointing and Maguire 1988).
