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

Surviving Violent Crime and the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority

where to get a copy

The first edition has sold out. It has sold out abroad and in the UK everywhere except a single copy in Wales, for some reason! It has sold to major universities, a few schools, city and county libraries and all national police training libraries. Your local library may have a copy in stock now!

An improved second edition will be published later this year and hopefully national media will review without asking for a ‘real grieving family’ as a pre-condition for reviewing my handbook, or stating ‘it’s not news’.

Some issues covered in my handbook include:-

Why, as a wealthy nation, do we treat crime victims as we do? Historically, why do crime victims receive so little resourcing and funding from the overall criminal justice budget?

Getting expert services, how to write letters, coping with extreme trauma and where to get help, disability, death, basic nutrition and exercise, the media, what the police do, helping young people, going to court, a summary of the complex criminal injuries compensation process, selected listings of good solicitors, progressing a life, how to set up a self-help group and the wider community and national political matters affecting victims of violent crime. Also a strategic model for a new national crime victim service. Many sections include suggestions for further reading about specific issues.

The handbook is part common sense, part reference and guide, part practical and policy proposals. It signposts people to where they need to go. It has four main areas, 1) the personal survivor needs, 2) the complex legal CICA process and compensation issues, 3) social / government policy and 4) a directory for good solicitors, agencies and psychiatrists.

My handbook breaks the silence of survivors of violent crime and confronts the isolation in which they are all too often placed. Many public service institutions have the direct means to become more aware and directly responsible. My handbook brings together all the seemingly fragmented areas of a person's life by making needs and public services connected and start to work in partnership. It connects current political, policy and social issues that affect us all as citizens. It is the important and common sense matters people need to know about that makes this handbook original, popular, diverse and placing political inclusive proposals for those bold enough to listen and act.

This is a small contribution to the huge struggle for justice. Within the struggle for rehabilitation and justice, my handbook shows how to use services effectively and aspire to getting beyond staying trapped.

My 475 page handbook wishes to reduce unnecessary distress and encourage a less monolithic, mono-functional and cynical crime victim industry. Justice and multi-agency partnerships will serve the public taxpayer best.

The public can read my book by asking their local library to order a copy via this website. The library will need to know the title of my book my name and the books code ISBN 0-9543444-0-5.

The handbook costs £20 per copy and includes postage

Personal Customers

Single copies of the handbook can be ordered and purchased from:

Foyles Booksellers,- 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H 0EB, England. Tel: 020 7437 5660, Web: http://www.foyles.co.uk
Hammicks Legal Bookstore, -191-192 Fleet Street London, EC4A 2NJ, England. Tel: 020 7405 5711, Email: fleetstreet@hammicks.co.uk

Statutory Purchasers and Other Agencies

To purchase multiple copies of the handbook, please click here to complete and print your order form for the handbook, and then send to:

TS DUCKETT
PO BOX 39627
LONDON W2 6YH

You will be issued with an invoice, and payment will be due 21 days after ordering.

If you would like any further information before purchase, please contact me at:

inform@officium.org.uk

Purchase of my handbook embraces best practices and is within the stipulations of Distance Selling Regulations 2000.