FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? OVC
Tuesday, December 17, 2002??????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????? 202/307-0703
PUBLICATIONS ADVISORY
???????????????? New
Bulletins Outline Critical Victims? Rights in Criminal Justice System
Four new bulletins from the Justice
Department?s Office of Justice Programs? (OJP) Office for Victims of Crime
(OVC) provide crime victims
with clear and concise information about key
legal issues. The bulletins are the latest in an ongoing series designed to
educate victims about their
rights and roles in the criminal justice
system.??
Restitution: Making it Work describes how courts can better monitor and
enforce restitution payments to crime victims, including possible
penalties for failure to pay.
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Ordering Restitution to the Crime Victim outlines laws and regulations governing restitution in different
states, including common barriers
to restitution orders.
Victim Input Into Plea Agreements spotlights ways that the rights of victims to be consulted on plea
agreements can be ensured without
hampering prosecutors? ability to resolve
cases.
?
Privacy of Victims? Counseling Communications addresses the degree to which states
recognize the confidentiality of discussions between
crime victims and counselors.? This issue is especially relevant in
domestic violence and sexual assault cases.
Copies of? Restitution: Making
it Work, Ordering Restitution to the Crime Victim,? Victim Input Into Plea Agreements, Privacy
of
?Victims? Counseling Communications, as well as information about other OVC
publications, programs and conferences, are available through
?the
OJP Website at www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc and from the OVC Resource Center at
1-800/627-6872.
Media should contact OJP?s Office of
Communications at 202/307-0703.? ??????
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