¶ … 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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