NCJ Number
166643
Date Published
1993
Length
158 pages
Annotation
This seminar-participant manual presents objectives, materials, and lists of required reading for the six sessions of a seminar on the rights and needs of crime victims.
Abstract
The objective of the first seminar session is to recognize the various effects of crime on a victim, including re- victimization by the criminal justice system and the crisis reaction of the victim. The second seminar session is designed to help participants decide how courts should structure responses to victims' needs based upon differences in age, gender, cultural conditioning, disability, socialization, and language. For the third session the objective is to describe the possible sources of law that may be used to support extending the rights and meeting the needs of crime victims. Session four describes and applies selected victims' rights in protecting and notifying the victim about the criminal proceedings. The final session aims to include victims' protection and remedies in criminal sentences and to describe and meet the needs and expectations at the time of sentencing. Other sections of this manual contain Missouri victim-witness statutes and the Uniform Victims of Crime Act, which was drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws.