LAWS 3306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Victim Impact Statement, Restorative Justice, Exclusionary Rule
2 Aug 2016
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Fed government has promoted interest in victims by being tough on crime. Various provinces have since enacted their own bill of rights legislation. Most victim rights victories are through harsher punishment. 25% of people are victims however many of these crimes are very minor. People use these statistics to justify harsher punishment. Problem with this is that not all victims seek punishment. 90% of sexual assaults not reports, 68% of assaults, over 50% of robbery and 32% of break and enter not reported. This might be because it was dealt in different way, event was minor, don"t trust police etc . High levels of unreported has been used to argue reformation and harsher punishment. After abolition of capital punishment, gvmnt was fearful people were losing faith in cjs. So they began to put more focus on crime victims, they became the consumers of the cjs. In us it was a more populous movement.
