1. The victim, the state, and civil society / Matt Matravers
2. The 'duty to understand' : what consequences for victim participation? / Anthony Bottoms
3. The status of crime victims and witnesses in the twenty-first century / Dame Helen Reeves and Peter Dunn
4. 'Rebalancing the criminal justice system in favour of the victim' : the costly consequences of populist rhetoric / Michael Tonry
5. The phenomenon of victim-offender overlap : a study of offences against households / Anthony Bottoms and Andrew Costello
6. The victim and the prosecutor / John Spencer
7. Victims at court : necessary accessories or principal players at centre stage? / Joanna Shapland and Matthew Hall
8. 'Hearing victims of crime' : the delivery of impact statements as ritual behaviour in four London trials for murder and manslaughter / Paul Rock
9. Communication at sentencing : the expressive function of victim impact statements
10. Victim impact at parole : probative or prejudicial? / Nicola Padfield and Julian V. Roberts.