promoting justice for crime victims and survivors
Welcome and thank you for visiting my website!
This website exists to assist people affected by violent crime and those working with them. It highlights important matters and tries to point people in the right direction. This site promotes my freelance work for crime victims and service providers. My handbook is a guide to all that is best in the field of personal, legal, community and political matters I have come across so far.
media / freelance
Recent government cuts in state compensation, constraints in access to quality law firms and substantial cuts in welfare provision make the daily crises of crime victims compounded by inadequate state intervention. These issues receive inadequate media profile and sustained coverage.
Invitations of work are welcomed about crime victim related issues from national or regional strategy and policy, developing multi-agency partnerships with police and other statutory services, whole service safeguarding investigations, review of social care performance, high court forensic reports. Also welcomed are enquiries for all media-related contributions from radio chat shows, television contributions to feature printed articles.
promoting justice
My aim for promoting justice has remained the necessity to develop improved procedures for early multi-disciplinary referrals. These require early statutory intervention from health and social work services in conjunction with the police service. Our coalition government like too many before them have failed innocent citizens affected by violent crime. The Ministry of Justice's recently announced massive cuts in the allocation for state criminal compensation further isolate and reflect a punitive institutional strategy towards the needs of crime victims in Britain. The repeal of the draconian Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1995 should be advocated by media, crime victim organizations and all political parties and the Victims' Advisory Panel; and this is not happening. This website acts as one of many others making a contribution to advocate dignity and fairness for crime victims.
surviving violent crime
The dismantling and massive reduction in welfare support and criminal compensation provision makes my handbook even more relevant. It continues to be a source of public guidance and policy proposals. This handbook was written because at the time nothing existed that comprehensively tried to empower and practically assist innocent victims of violent crime and because no crime victim organization had produced anything. My handbook treats crime victims and providers with intelligence and professional experience in public service. My handbook has been privileged with foreword contributions from Dr Shaun Russell, the father of Miss Josie Russell, Mrs Doreen Lawrence, the mother of the late Mr Stephen Lawrence, Professor David A Alexander the eminent professor of trauma psychiatry and Mr Mike Bennett, the widely respected retired senior police officer of the Police Federation. A new edition will follow.
