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The State Attorney’s Office will assign an Assistant State Attorney (prosecutor) and a Victim Witness Counselor or Trial Coordinator to facilitate your involvement. This team will keep you advised as the case progresses. You may contact team members if you have any questions. ...
Victim programs vary in relation to how they operationally define victims as service recipients, and these definitions follow from the type of organization delivering the services. Even in programs designed to provide services for persons identified as victims, there is a tendency to conceive of victi...
(2005) "Use and Nonuse of Victim Services Programs: Implications from a Statewide Survey of Victims." Criminology & Public Policy, 4(2): 361-384.Sims B, Yost B and Abbott C (2005) Use and nonuse of victim services programs: implications from a statewide survey of crime victims. ...
s and allows for restitution to victims of federal crimes. The VWPA has served as a model for many state victim protection laws, especially those providing for restitution to crime victims. The Victims of Crime Act also provided $150 million to support compensation and victim assistance programs...
These “live webcasted group meetings” adhere to and surpass all State standardsand laws regarding Domestic Violence, Batterers Intervention, Anger Management, Child Endagerment / Abuse, Parenting, Drug & Alcohol Programs and Court Ordered Classes has since been put to use by many Children's, Fa...
Many victim/survivors do not speak out about it because of fear and shame, among other reasons. Victim blaming attitudes are still prevalent, and there is a lack of community understanding about the circumstances in which sexual assault occurs, and the impact it has on victim/survivors. ...
and passed victims' rights amendments to their state constitutions. These amendments, generally guaranteeing the right of the victim to be heard in criminal proceedings through the use of victim impact statements, have been enacted by a majority of the states. Their overall effect has been debated...
As the sole focus of the study is IPH, only incidents in which the offender and victim were or had been in an intimate relationship were included in the analyses. The definition used in current study of 'intimate partners' is incidents in which the offender and the victim were or ...
Starting from the observation that a new victim category has emerged in the form of the 'young crime victim', this article explores the notion of support to young crime victims as crime prevention work, considering it as an important constituent of the dominant crime victim discourse among suppor...