RT Article
T1 Transforming crime victims’ rights: from myth to reality
JF International journal of comparative and applied criminal justice
VO 45
IS 1
SP 1
OP 13
A1 Cassell, Paul
A2 Holder, Robyn
A2 Kirchengast, Tyrone 1978-
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1752169093
AB Rights for crime victims have been decried as myths; entitlements that have little enforceability. At the same time, they have been criticised as undermining the legal rights of the accused person. In this Guest Editors Introduction to the Special Issue, Making Rights Real, we suggest that victims’ rights are in transition. Rights may be set out in legal instrument but, we argue, it is through the practices of people in their myriad settings that are part of that shift to realising rights in action. We describe ways in which we see victims’ rights being realised in different parts of the world and develop a human rights framework for the rights of crime victims to further shape the transition.
K1 enforcement; human rights
K1 victims’ rights
K1 Crime Victim
DO 10.1080/01924036.2020.1857278