ATS1282 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Cole Miller, Victimisation, Stolen Generations
26 Oct 2018
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According to the un (1985) > people/groups who have suffered physical, mental or emotional harm, economic loss or impairment of their fundamental rights through acts or omissions that violate the law (declaration of basic. Principles of justice for victims of crime and abuse of power, 1985) According to victims" charter act 2006 (vic) > a person who has suffered injury directly due to a criminal offence, whether the offender could foresee the damage they would cause or not. If someone has died due to an offence then the victims are the family members of the deceased. Primary victims: those who are immediate victims of a crime and were directly affected by it. Secondary victims: others who suffer harm as a result of a crime e. g. witnesses, in the instance of hate crimes it could be other people in the affected community. Context is very important in determining who the victim is e. g. the stolen.
