Legislation To Help Crime Victims

Author : British Columbia. Office of the Ombudsman,British Columbia. Legislative Assembly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Compensation (Law)
ISBN : 077265770X

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Victims of Crime, Victims of Change by British Columbia. Office of the Ombudsman,British Columbia. Legislative Assembly Pdf

Special Report No. 30 details the experience of a woman who was awarded a pension under the Criminal Injury Compensation program after her husband was killed. The woman, Ms. T., was promised that her pension would continue for the rest of her life and that it would be adjusted semi annually to reflect changes in the cost of living. Several years later, those cost of living adjustments were abruptly discontinued when responsibility for the Crime Victim Assistance Program was transferred from the Workers' Compensation Board to the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General. Without prior warning, Ms. T. and about 390 other victims of crime received an unsigned and undated form letter informing them that cost of living adjustments would no longer be made to their pensions. This Ombudsman report describes the investigation process and draws conclusions based on the investigation results.--Includes text from document.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : LOC:00183857757

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Legislation to Help Crime Victims by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Pdf

Author : Albert R. Roberts
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1990-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : UOM:39015017703789

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Helping Crime Victims by Albert R. Roberts Pdf

Topics covered include overview of victimology, victim services and witness assistance programs, missing and murdered children in America, crisis intervention with battered women and their children, police-based crisis teams, telephone hotline programs and services for family violence survivors.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045458366

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Legislation to Help Crime Victims by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Justice Pdf

Author : Jo-Anne M. Wemmers
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Victims of crimes
ISBN : 9781442634831

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Victimology by Jo-Anne M. Wemmers Pdf

Written by one of the world's leading experts on victimology, this book is designed to offer a broad introduction to the subject.

Author : Peggy M. Tobolowsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Victims of crimes
ISBN : 1611636949

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Crime Victim Rights and Remedies by Peggy M. Tobolowsky Pdf

Prior to the emergence of a victims' movement in this country in the 1970s, crime victims had only limited formal rights and remedies in the modern American criminal justice system. With the active encouragement of those involved in the victims' movement and guidance supplied by a national Task Force on Victims of Crime, convened by President Reagan in 1982, federal and state authorization of crime victim rights and remedies has increased exponentially in the subsequent years. In fact, it has been estimated that there are currently tens of thousands of statutes that directly or indirectly affect crime victim rights and interests, as well as crime victim-related constitutional provisions in a majority of states. The authors describe the constitutional and legislative provisions addressing the principal crime victim rights and remedies and leading judicial opinions that have interpreted them. In addition to presenting the current state of the law in this area, the text describes the status of implementation of these rights and remedies, relevant empirical research, and a sampling of pertinent policy analysis. This comprehensive portrait of the past and current status of crime victim rights and remedies in this country will inform the continued evolution of law and practice in this area. The third edition of Crime Victim Rights and Remedies continues to address the evolution of key crime victim rights (e.g., the rights to notice of and to be present and heard at criminal justice proceedings) and includes the state constitutional amendments, legislation, court decisions, and empirical studies completed since the second edition in 2010. Of particular note is an expanded federal section regarding each right and remedy in the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act, enacted in 2004, and court decisions that have interpreted the Act in its initial decade of implementation. The third edition also adds a new chapter concerning crime victim rights and remedies in the United States armed services and internationally.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Crime
ISBN : LOC:00171201731

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Compensation of Victims of Crime by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the District of Columbia Pdf

Considers S. 2936, to establish a D.C. Violent Crimes Compensation Commission to review personal injury claims of crime victims and to provide adequate compensation.

Author : Evan Stark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780195384048

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Coercive Control by Evan Stark Pdf

Drawing on cases, Stark identifies the problems with our current approach to domestic violence, outlines the components of coercive control, and then uses this alternate framework to analyse the cases of battered women charged with criminal offenses directed at their abusers.

Author : Alison Burke,David Carter,Brian Fedorek,Tiffany Morey,Lore Rutz-Burri,Shanell Sanchez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636350682

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SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System by Alison Burke,David Carter,Brian Fedorek,Tiffany Morey,Lore Rutz-Burri,Shanell Sanchez Pdf

Author : Peggy M. Tobolowsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015053153329

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Crime Victim Rights and Remedies by Peggy M. Tobolowsky Pdf

Prior to the emergence of a victims' movement in this country in the 1970s, crime victims had only limited formal rights and remedies in the modern American justice system. With the active encouragement of those involved in the victims' movement and guidance supplied by a national Task Force on Victims of Crime, convened by President Reagan in 1982, federal and state authorization of crime victim rights and remedies has increased exponentially in recent years. In fact, it has been estimated that there are currently tens of thousands of statutes which directly or indirectly affect crime victim rights and interests, as well as victim-related constitutional provisions in a majority of states. Tobolowsky describes the constitutional and legislative provisions addressing the principal crime victim rights and remedies and leading judicial opinions that have interpreted them. In addition to presenting the current state of law in this area, the text describes the status of implementation of these rights and remedies, relevant empirical research, and a sampling of the pertinent policy analysis. This comprehensive portrait of the past and current status of crime victims rights and remedies in this country will inform the continued evolution of law and practice in this area.

Author : Jo-Anne M. Wemmers
Publisher : Kugler Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 9062991440

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Victims in the Criminal Justice System by Jo-Anne M. Wemmers Pdf

Author : Robert Elias
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1993-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781452254081

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Victims Still by Robert Elias Pdf

Official crime policy shifted its focus from crime and criminals to victimization and victims in the 1980s and early 1990s. As a result, crime victims were the subject of extensive new legislation addressing victim needs, rights, and services. But did these initiatives really help victims, or did they help further Reagan and Bush administration "law and order" policies for curbing offender and public rights in favor of increasing police power? And has such power escalated incidents like the Rodney King case in Los Angeles? In this controversial and thought-provoking book, Robert Elias evaluates the effectiveness of the last decade′s victim policy and argues that victims have been politically manipulated for official objectives. As a result, little victim support has occurred, and victimization keeps escalating. He reaches these conclusions from a thorough examination of victim legislation, get-tough crime policies, media crime coverage, the victim movement, and the wars on crime and drugs. Finally, he proposes solutions that could lead to substantially less crime. Students and professionals of criminology, victimology, policy studies, and political science will find Victims Still an exceptionally stimulating resource. "In Victims Still, Elias demonstrates again that he is a preeminent scholar in the field of victimology. This work provides a unique, provocative, and elucidative account of the politicization of the victims′ movement as well as the social and political ramifications of the ′get tough′ crime policies and enforcement strategies of the 1980s. Dr. Elias raises serious and challenging questions about the currency of conventional responses to crime victims and offenders. Victims Still should be required reading for crime victim researchers and program practitioners. This book offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the causes of crime and violence in America. Professor Elias′s solutions to the crime problem are sweeping and progressive." --Arthur J. Lurigio, Ph.D., Loyola University of Chicago

Author : Geoff Norquay,Richard Weiler
Publisher : Solicitor General Canada, Research Division
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015010910498

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Services to Victims and Witnesses of Crime in Canada by Geoff Norquay,Richard Weiler Pdf

Author : Frank Weed
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0202364631

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Certainty of Justice by Frank Weed Pdf

Since the late 1970s, the movement portrayed in this volume has been demanding that the law stand in for society as a whole, and use its authority to demonstrate the triumph of good over evil rather than simply to bear out the bureaucratic process. In so doing, its proponents are changing our concept of justice by defining a role for crime victims beyond the evidentiary need of the prosecution in a court of law. Weed examines the complex organizational system and grass roots groups affiliated with the movement, and takes a look from within at their leaders and agendas. His study also details the recent changes in state and federal laws and the legal decisions rendered in the name of "victims' rights."

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Government publications
ISBN : LOC:00140120959

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Victims of Crime by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Criminal Laws and Procedures Pdf