Victim Impact Statement in UK Law
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Delivering a Victim Impact Statement: Emotionally effective or counter-productive?
Although the delivery of a Victim Impact Statement (VIS) in court is assumed to contribute to the healing and recovery process of victims of violent crimes, its effectiveness to facilitate emotiona...
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Heterogeneity in victim participation: A new perspective on delivering a Victim Impact Statement
A central question in the debate about victim participation in criminal justice procedures is which instrument available to victims ‘works’. The purpose of the present study was to examine which fa...
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Observers’ reactions to victim impact statements
Previous research has shown that expectancy violations can have both affective and cognitive consequences. In particular, recent victimological research argues that people’s perceptions and judgmen...... ... victim impact statement not only ran the risk of being evaluated as less credible than victims ofmore severe crimes who delivered the exact same victim impact statement, but ... ...
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One rule for the goose, one for the gander? Wrongfulness and harmfulness in determining reactions to offenders and victims of crime
People’s reactions to offenders and victims of crime follow different rationales. Whereas the punishment of the offender is primarily determined by the severity of the crime (which includes its for...... ... the actual harm that is experienced by the victim drives the need for his or her support and stance. With the introduction of the Victim Impact ... , reactions to crime, Victim Impact Statement, wrongfulness ... Previous research has shown ... ...
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Reparation in the German Criminal Justice System: What is, and what Remains to be Done
Part one of this article shows how the idea that offenders should make reparation to their victims figures within the German criminal justice system. In analysing the present state of the law, the ...... ... ' are described, a feature that allows the victim to participate at trial yet unlike the mpact-statement' approach taken in some common-law countries ... to procedural features like the 'victim impact statement', which by 1995 was established ... ...
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Victim personal statements in England and Wales: Latest (and last) trends from the Witness and Victim Experience Survey
Crime victims and victims’ advocates have for many years called for greater input into the criminal process, and in particular at the stage of sentencing. Today, victims in almost all common law co...... ... the sentencing process, usually by providing information about the impact of the crime. This impact evidence is placed before a sentencing court in the form of a victim impact statement (VIS) or victim personal statement (VPS) as it is known in England and ... ...
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Gender, emotionality, and victim impact statements
Purpose: The present study aims to examine the influence of emotional content and gender pertaining to victim impact statements (VIS) on sentencing outcomes. Design/methodology/approach: The autho...... ... on sentencing outcomes.Design/methodology/approach – The authors used a 2 (emotionality) £2 (participant gender) £2(victim gender) £2 (statement gender) factorial design. Participants (n¼715) read a crime vignetteand corresponding VIS, and completed questionnaires pertaining to sentencing ... ...
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Procedural ‘Rights’ of Victims of Crime: Public or Private Ordering of the Criminal Justice Process?
... ... When the Victim’s Charter was published in 1990 it declared t it was ‘a Statement of the Rights of Victims of Crime’, and went on ... but do not afford her a means of making an impact on the process itself. The latter, on which this ... ...
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Antidotes to injustice? Victim statements’ impact on victims’ sense of security
Since the mid- to late 1980s a number of Western countries have granted victims a participatory role in the sentencing process by means of written and oral victim statements. These statements have ...... ... Evaluation research on the use of these statements, however, points towards victims numerousconcerns when deciding whether to submit a statement. These concerns indicate that somevictims may feel insecure and uncomfortable about submitting a statement. Focusing on the specificcase of victim ... ...
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Review: Victims and Victimology
... ... the fundamentalquestion, Who is granted victim status and why? Victim-ology evolved from a ... witness care units and the victim impact statement areevaluated, but how might victims be ... ...
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