No More Rights Without Remedies: Ann Impact Evaluation of the National Crime Victims' Rights Clinics. Final Technical Report.

摘要

This is the second of two reports evaluating the National Crime Victim Law Institutes victims rights clinics. The clinics were designed to increase awareness of victims rights among criminal justice professionals and to respond to violations of rights through legal advocacy. The first report, Securing Rights for Victims: A Process Evaluation of the National Crime Victim Law Institutes Victims Rights Clinics, included case studies of the individual state clinics. It synthesized commonalities of experiences among the individual clinics, as well as differences in their approaches and environments. The current report examines the clinics impact on the expansion of rights for victims, on court officials attitudes toward victims rights, on the extent to which victims rights are honored in the criminal disposition process, and on the treatment of victims rights in the print media. It also includes a discussion of sustainability of the clinics. Both reports are intended for an audience of researchers and criminal justice practitioners interested in victims rights.