State Compensation for Criminal Injuries

State Compensation for Criminal Injuries
Author: David Miers
Publisher: Wm Gaunt & Sons
Total Pages: 319
Release: 1997
Genre: Compensation (Law)
ISBN: 9781854315052

With effect from 1st April 1996, the Government intends thats the new tariff-based scheme for compensating victims of crimes of violence will come into force. This scheme, authorized by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act 1995, replaces the common law basis of assessment used under the old scheme, and greatly reduces the discretion formerly exercised by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board. The new book deals with the new scheme's procedures, conditions of eligibility, the definition of criminal injury, the range of qualifying, injuries and of eligible persons and the assessment of compensation. operation since 1964. . Full statutory and related texts are also included.

Criminal Injuries Compensation

Criminal Injuries Compensation
Author: David Miers
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780198806622

"[This book provides] analysis of the statutory provisions governing these various remedies. Part One, state compensation, analyses the scheme's defining provisions: what constitutes 'a criminal injury', what persons and injuries may be compensated, the rules governing the victim's own conduct and character, the assessment of the award, and the procedures governing applications, appeals and judicial review. Part two, offender compensation, analyses the conditions under which a criminal court may make a compensation order as an element of its sentencing decision, concluding with the potential of restorative justice to deliver offender compensation to victims. The book also touches on the wider political and criminal justice context of compensation."--

Criminal Injuries Compensation Claims

Criminal Injuries Compensation Claims
Author: Laura Begley
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Reparation (Criminal justice)
ISBN: 9781784460297

A practical and comprehensive guide to making a claim under the government's tariff based scheme for compensating victims of violent crime. Divided into three sections - eligibility, assessment of compensation, and the procedural aspects of the scheme - it provides a one-stop source of information for all those practising in this field.

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme 2012
Author: Great Britain: Ministry of Justice
Publisher: The Stationery Office
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2012-11-27
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780108512117

The Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme is a government funded scheme to compensate blameless victims of violent crime. Money (an award) is paid to people who have been physically or mentally injured because they were the blameless victim of a violent crime. This current Scheme introduced on 27 November 2012 applies to any application made on or after that date (for any applications made before then different rules may apply). The Scheme is for people injured in England, Scotland and Wales (Great Britain) and the rules of the Scheme and the value of the payments awarded are set by Parliament. Payments are calculated by reference to a tariff of injuries. Claims are considered for the following: personal injury following a single incident; personal injury following a period of abuse; loss of earnings; special expenses payments - to cover specific injury-related requirements which are not available free of charge from any other source; fatal injuries, including loss of parental services and financial dependency; and funeral payments.

Victims of the System

Victims of the System
Author: Robert Elias
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 558
Release: 2017-07-28
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351300024

This important new book on criminology is a major attempt to evaluate actual victim compensation programs as well as their political and economic contexts, through the eyes of the victims themselves.Elias traces the experiences of violent-crime victims throughout the entire criminal justice process, comparing New York's and New Jersey's victim compensation programs. He shows how programs differ when compensation is viewed essentially as welfare and when it is viewed as a right. The study uses extensive interviews with officials and with violent crime victims.The study indicates victim compensation programs largely fail to achieve their stated goals of improving attitudes toward the criminal-justice system and the government. The programs produce poor attitudes toward government and criminal justice.

Victims' Rights

Victims' Rights
Author: William L. Ginsburg
Publisher: Sphinx Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1994
Genre: Law
ISBN:

"Who qualifies, how to qualify, how to apply, how much is available, rights of relatives, who to contact"--Cover.

Justice for Victims

Justice for Victims
Author: Inge Vanfraechem
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2014-06-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1136207759

Justice for Victims brings together the world’s leading scholars in the fields of study surrounding victimization in a pioneering international collection. This book focuses on the current study of victims of crime, combining both legal and social-scientific perspectives, articulating both in new directions and questioning whether victims really do have more rights in our modern world. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach, covering large-scale (political) victimization, terrorist victimization, sexual victimization and routine victimization. Split into three sections, this book provides in-depth coverage of: victims' rights, transitional justice and victims' perspectives, and trauma, resilience and justice. Victims' rights are conceptualised in the human rights framework and discussed in relation to supranational, international and regional policies. The transitional justice section covers victims of war from those caught between peace and justice, as well as post-conflict justice. The final section focuses on post-traumatic stress, connecting psychological and anthropological perceptions in analysing collective violence, mass victimization and trauma. This book addresses challenging and new issues in the field of victimology and the study of transitional and restorative justice. As such, it will be of interest to researchers, practitioners and students interested in the fields of victimology, transitional justice, restorative justice and trauma work.

Rights for Victims of Crime

Rights for Victims of Crime
Author: Irvin Waller
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Victims of crimes
ISBN: 9781442207066

Criticizes the balance of justice in the American justice system, discussing the rights and implementation of the rights granted to victims of crime, and describing ways to improve the system and better support victims with assistance, compensation, and protection from the accused.