Criminalizing Assault
The Failure of the ‘Offence Against Society’ Model
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8403252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonia Cretney (University of Wales), GWYNN DAVIS (University of Wales), Chris Clarkson (0000-0001-7363-0722, University of Wales), JON SHEPHERD, Jon K Shepherd (University of Wales) |
| Year | 1994 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 15-29 |
| Publication date | 1994-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordjournals.bjc.a048380 |
| OpenAlex | W1905552272 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 4 |
The authors undertook a study of assault, starting outside the justice system with 93 assault victims admitted to the Accident and Emergency Department of a city-centre hospital. They found that in relation to this type of offence the police do not respond to ‘crime’; they respond to ‘complaints’ from an ‘aggrieved’. If the victim is too fearful or for some other reason is reluctant to co-operate with the prosecution effort, matters proceed no further. This does not conform to the ‘offence against society’ model of criminal justice advanced by academic commentators. In fact this model is applied at the court stage of the criminal process, when the victim interest may be neglected entirely, but not at the vitally important stage of police/victim interaction
Criminal justice · Criminology · Economic Justice · Political science · Relation (database) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Intimate Partner and Family Violence · Law · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,21 |
| Citation span | 1997 - 2016 (20) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |