The Rights of Crime Victims—Does Legal Protection Make a Difference?
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Discussed in this Brief: The impact of legal protection on crime victims’ rights. This survey of more than 1,300 crime victims, the largest of its kind, was conducted by the National Center for Victims of Crime to find out whether State constitutional amendments and other legal measures designed to protect crime victims’ rights have been effective. The researchers sought the views of victims in two States representative of those in which legal protection of victims’ rights is strong and two States representative of those in which such protection is weak, testing whether victims from the “strong-protection States” had better experiences with the justice system.
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