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Some Criminal Justice Responses to Crime Victim Needs

NCJ Number
101197
Journal
Victimology Volume: 10 Issue: 1-4 Dated: (1985) Pages: 646-661
Author(s)
P Burns
Date Published
1985
Length
16 pages
Annotation
This paper examines the matter of restitution to a crime-victim, through the medium of the criminal justice process itself, in Canada.
Abstract
It also touches briefly on recent developments in the common law jurisdictions and sketches the various roles played by such a victim in the criminal justice system. (Author abstract)