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Originally Posted by fredr123
But at the same time, your statement (and the ramblings of JofS  ) beg the question: what are victims rights? I would hazard a guess that you are at a minimum talking about the right to feel safe and secure. Not sure that would ever be possible and I'm not sure Joe Blow on the street feels entirely safe and secure anyway. But what else? The right to extract vengance upon the convicted perpetrator? |
Victims rights is not something that I can define very well... but here are a couple of links which list some of it:
http://www.trynova.org/about/victimrights.html
http://www.letswrap.com/legal/victrts.htm
http://www.klaaskids.org/stvr-cal.htm
Unfortunately, these all seem to not go far enough. There needs to be more consideration for a tougher sentence, especially when this is the only kind of 'reparations' that are available. If nothing else, if there is nothing that the victim can get, there should be an assertion that the person who harmed them cannot harm anyone else. This is the part that most often gets forgotten.