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Originally Posted by calculoso
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. |
Great links. Thanks for posting those. I can't say I really disagree with any of the proposals contained therein except to a certain extent a few in the letswrap.com site. Specifically, those that provide the victim with some say in how the case is prosecuted. Mind you, the proposal only says that the victim is to be notified of decisions not to prosecute, plea arrangements and the like but I would be concerned if those provisions in any way tied the Crown's hands and dictated how a case was to be tried.
Those links all talk about reparations. For property-related offences, that kind of a right seems absolutely necessary. I'm not sure how one could ever provide sufficient compensation or reparations to rape victims or those that have suffered horribly violent (and maybe deadly) assaults. In that case, reparations might come dangerously close to vengance.