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AMERICAN PRISON NEWSPAPERS 1880-2020
The Other Crime Victims
Can perpetrators of crime also be victims of crime?
daily.jstor.org/the-other-crime-victims/
Crime Victims’ Rights Week has been celebrated every April since 1981. The rise of the victims’ right movements transformed the criminal justice system, leading to legislative changes in all 50 states and the federal government. The crime victims in question are most often those who are pressing charges against someone who has harmed them, with their rights being derived from the criminal justice system.
In 1970, Spiro Agnew stated that “the rights of the accused have become more important than the rights of victims in our courtrooms.” Defendants have rights, as enshrined in the constitution. Since the 1980s, victims do, too.
The victims’ rights movement introduced victim impact statements and emphasized psychological and emotional harm in courts of law.
The movement was an unlikely alliance between conservatism and feminism, with punitiveness blending with women’s rights to be protected from sexual and domestic violence. With jurors, judges, and attorneys being all-male for the majority of the nation’s history, it is undeniable that women’s rights were trampled and abuses against them overlooked. Reversing centuries of bureaucratization and the stripping of emotion from legal proceedings, the victims’ rights movement introduced victim impact statements and emphasized psychological and emotional harm in courts of law.
The victims’ rights movement is thriving, yet victim in this sense is interpreted selectively.
The Other Crime Victims
Can perpetrators of crime also be victims of crime?
daily.jstor.org/the-other-crime-victims/
Crime Victims’ Rights Week has been celebrated every April since 1981. The rise of the victims’ right movements transformed the criminal justice system, leading to legislative changes in all 50 states and the federal government. The crime victims in question are most often those who are pressing charges against someone who has harmed them, with their rights being derived from the criminal justice system.
In 1970, Spiro Agnew stated that “the rights of the accused have become more important than the rights of victims in our courtrooms.” Defendants have rights, as enshrined in the constitution. Since the 1980s, victims do, too.
The victims’ rights movement introduced victim impact statements and emphasized psychological and emotional harm in courts of law.
The movement was an unlikely alliance between conservatism and feminism, with punitiveness blending with women’s rights to be protected from sexual and domestic violence. With jurors, judges, and attorneys being all-male for the majority of the nation’s history, it is undeniable that women’s rights were trampled and abuses against them overlooked. Reversing centuries of bureaucratization and the stripping of emotion from legal proceedings, the victims’ rights movement introduced victim impact statements and emphasized psychological and emotional harm in courts of law.
The victims’ rights movement is thriving, yet victim in this sense is interpreted selectively.