Officium - domestic violence, support for abuse victims, criminal justice, support for victims of violent crimes, crime victim rights, crime victim advocacy, criminal injury compensation, personal injury, victim support

domestic violence, support for abuse victims, criminal justice, support for victims of violent crimes, crime victim rights, crime victim advocacy, criminal injury compensation, personal injury, victim supportMy handbook aims to direct people affected by violent crime to all that is best and known from my research and experience. It encourages people to strive to be assertive and not trapped and typecast living as permanent ‘victims’. domestic violence, support for abuse victims, criminal justice, support for victims of violent crimes, crime victim rights, crime victim advocacy, criminal injury compensation, personal injury, victim support It covers matters like trauma, death, disability, the media, the police, going to court and services. It explains how to confidently seek help and if necessary how to pursue a formal complaint. This handbook will be periodically revised to remain up to date with policy, legal and community changes and to include or exclude agencies. It explains the complex, expensive, often degrading and drawn-out CICA compensation process combining easy references and directory listings for selecting the best experts of trauma specialists and solicitors across England, Scotland and Wales. It has three main areas 1) the personal survivor needs, 2) the complex legal CICA process and compensation issues and 3) social / government policy, why, as a wealthy nation we treat victims as we do, and suggest community and national empowerment proposals for the future like setting-up small and regional groups. This handbook aims to break and confront the anguished silent isolation a survivor of violent crime is often placed in by institutions, and an ambivalent society. An inclusive guide has never been achieved before. Others have written with a minimal cluster of précised points and telephone numbers, or a detached often academic perspective, or kept the obvious and common sense parts of a person’s life fragmented - never treating a person as a whole. Instead, referring to people’s needs like shattered glass keeping inter-connected parts of a person’s life isolated. This handbook weaves current political, policy and social issues affecting us all as citizens - especially people affected by violent crime. It is about the important obvious common sense matters people need to know that makes this handbook inclusive. This is a small contribution to the huge struggle for justice domestic violence, support for abuse victims, criminal justice, support for victims of violent crimes, crime victim rights, crime victim advocacy, criminal injury compensation, personal injury, victim supportdomestic violence, support for abuse victims, criminal justice, support for victims of violent crimes, crime victim rights, crime victim advocacy, criminal injury compensation, personal injury, victim support

Gscene - from the heart of Brighton and Hove, April 2005

What happens to you after you suffer a violent attack? Who do you go to for help? What help is available? Can I claim compensation? Surviving Violent Crime has the answer to these questions and many more. Written by a survivor of violent crime the book is penned from a victim's perspective by someone with 15 years experience of working in social services as a strategic planner. Text book in approach it still manages to reflect a victim's frustration as they steer their way through the criminal justice system with little accurate information available.

Every PCT, police station, community safety team and city library in the country should have a copy of this book as an essential reference not only for victims, but for those employed to give advice.

Glasgow Evening Times - 30 October 2004

Considering Glasgow's reputation, this meticulously researched handbook should be on the bookshelves of anyone who has to deal with the victims of violent crime in the city.

Mr Duckett found out the hard way just how little is done for the victim and he has included all the information he wishes had been available when he needed help.

His background is in social work and although he's based in England, he has included information relevant to Scotland.

Mr Duckett points out the flaws in the system and signposts people to the best services and encourages them to avoid becoming trapped in the role of victim.