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Analyzing Victims Rights Movement Research Paper

¶ … Victims' Rights Movements and its effect on the criminal justice system and the offenders' rights. VICTIMS RIGHTS MOVEMENT

VICTIMS RIGHTS MOVEMENT

VICTIMS RIGHTS MOVEMENT

The United States Victims' Movement was a product of the increasing social awareness in the 60s that unleashed the idealistic generation's energy in that era and the next decade. Its continued energy has originated from the very social forces from where it started and from extraordinary individual's leadership, some of these individuals have survived personal tragedy, and several others who have brought unusual insights and compassion being witness to these types of tragedies. In the international arena, this has remained a source of both criticism and praise (Young). Retrospectively, it is right to assert that the United States victims' movement original involved the coming together of 5 independent developments: the introduction of compensation programs for compensating state victims; the development of a new academic field known as victimology; the women movement emergence; the victims' activism growth; and the increase in crime rate, along with a parallel displeasure with the justice system. Once these 5 developments converged into a single movement, there was a perseverance to include a 6th dimension, which involves responding to traumatic events-irrespective...

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In 1974, Donald E. Santarelli, the Federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration (LEAA) director was one of the few people who initiated reform in the system by transforming the problem.
He read the then-latest Frank Cannavale9 research which reported this amazing finding: the loss of the once-cooperative witnesses who decided to stop offering any form of help to a criminal justice system that does not care about their major needs was perhaps the biggest reason for prosecution failures (Young, n.d.). This turned out to be the catalyst for providing funding for three main 1974 demonstration projects to offer better support and notification to both witnesses and victims once the criminal prosecution had started. Some of the programs for the victims and witnesses started borrowing some service ideas from some of the grassroots programs and some new ones from law enforcement; some of these staff based on prosecutors were trained in crisis involvement (because court appearances can be crisis-inducing events), and some provided on-scene crisis services to the victims irrespective…

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Goldberg. (1970). Preface: Symposium on Governmental Compensation for Victims of Violence. Southern California Law Review, 43.

Morgan, A. (1987). Victim Rights: Criminal Law: Remembering the "Forgotten Person" in the Criminal Justice System. Marquette Law Review, 70(3). Retrieved, from http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article

Young, M. (n.d.)? (?

/UNAFEI). A HISTORY OF THE VICTIMS MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. Retrieved April 14, 2016, from http://www.unafei.or.jp/english/pdf/RS_No70/No70_08VE_Young1.pdf
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