Victim's Rights

When many people speak about victim's rights or vengeance, there seems to be an overflow of feelings and other debates between those discussing and experiencing these things. Throughout the years of law, we have been advanced from using vengeance for many things to actually having victim's rights.

Victim's Rights

The two articles I read "Crime Victims' Rights: From Illusion to Reality" and "Vengeance Time" in this week's readings. In my opinion in regards to this current subject is that the victim's rights have progressed in an extremely long way in America. In the start there were numerous different laws and other documentation that had wanted to help with the victims, but not many people had taken this with any seriousness. With the new laws that are now assisting the victims, there seem to be more of a need to acknowledge the importance that a victim has when a criminal is convicted. The changes have been necessary to the rights of the victim's by giving a positive outlook for our justice system. Now victims are not only allowed to face their offender, but they can also tell their story, witness any prosecution and in turn now allows the victim to have a sense of justice and accomplishment.

CRVA

The 2004 Crime Victims' Rights Acts has in my opinion been successful. Since this act has been affiliated with the Federal government there have been more expectations and demands. Because of this, there is now a 72 hour time line for the appeal courts to help act if a case that the appeals court judge should happen to violate the rights of the victims. Before, the victims along with the lawyers would have to file a complaint for this violation and it would take an extreme amount of time or nothing would even happen in forms of justice for this violation.

Conclusion

Vengeance for some seems to be the answer for punishment for their offenders. There are now laws and other rights that help victims with their recovery and confidence of the justice system. Comparable to how laws used to be it is just going to show that evolution is in favor of bettering victims.