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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Victims' rights"”.
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Assessment of the development of victims' rights within the legislative and policy framework in South Africa
This study assesses the development ofvictims' rights in the legislative and policy framework in South Africa. It is argued that although victims' rights are recognised more has to be done to concretise these rights.
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Diplomatic and consular privileges and immunities abuse in relation to the principle of reciprocity vis-à-vis the victims’ rights guarantee in Namibia and international law
… well as immunities undermine the constitutional rights of the victim person, and whether it is necessary to amend the current Namibian and international legal framework on diplomatic law. This investigation and discussion primarily focused on the mission premises and its ancillaries, as well as …
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The Crime Victim Movement and United States Public Culture
… This work considers the predilection toward victims' rights approaches to crime and violence within the movement, and their roots in the law-and-order rhetoric of the late 1960s. The victims' rights perspective pits the rights of crime victims against the rights of criminal defendants. The …
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Would greater victim participation benefit criminal justice?
There are continual calls from victims' rights campaigners for greater victim participation in criminal justice proceedings. This thesis examines this call. In order to appraise greater victim participation, it is imperative that we understand what is meant by the terms 'victim' and …
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Proving Rape: Sex, Race, and Representation in Chicago Trials and Society, 1937--1969
… stereotype that the public expected of rape victims helped the State prosecute criminals, this dissertation challenges the belief that only particular cases counted as ""real rapes."" Divorced women, sexually active single women, black women and working-class women all came forward with …
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Exploring Police-Community Relations Through Homicide.
… interviews with stakeholders (police officers, victims’ families, and victim support workers) in Chicago, and a national survey of residents across twenty U.S. cities with high rates of homicide. Findings reveal that while police-community relations do not directly determine homicide clearance …
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Between legality and empathy : an examination of the coroner’s inquest and its impact on the emotions of those bereaved by road death
… death by a system of justice which overlooks victims’ rights and increases the suffering of the bereaved. For those who suffer the loss of a family member in a road collision, the traumatic and complicated grief they experience sees them as ‘co–victims’ of such a death. This difficulty is …
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Due diligence in the protection of victims of trafficking: responding to the securitisation of migration
… continues to have negative consequences for victims of human trafficking. Instruments such as the Dublin III Regulation, the ‘hotspot approach’ and detention and deportation have been used to deal with victims of trafficking. In addition, States like Greece and Italy have used the so-called …