Victims and Crime Evaluation
All over the world, people are pronged to become victims of an offense against themselves or their property violating them. Most of the time people decided not to report the offense to a police officer for many reasons fear of their lives, embarrassment, loved one hurt him or her, and are not citizens. While not reporting the offense to the police department it only creates more numbers for the National Crime Victimization Survey department to report instead of the Uniform Crime Report that the police department provide at the end of every year. The Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 stated that the word victim “means any individual against whom an offense has been committed” and the best …show more content…
The National Victim Assistant program (nova 1975) provides information to victims who have suffered an offense. The National center for victims of crime (ncvc) 1985 reports any crimes the where not reported in the UCR. It also provides LA County witness assistance program (Schmalleger, Hall, & Dolatowski, 2010.) The program Voca (1984) victim’s crime act and 1994 Crime Control Act & Law enforcement act 1994 provided information and prohibited violence against women. Now Justice for all acts 2004 Federal side was the first to provide many rights to the victims such as notice of court proceeding, not to be excluded from the court proceedings, speak at sentencing, conference with the prosecutor, no unreasonable delays in court hearings and restitution (Schmalleger, Hall, & Dolatowski, 2010.) The Son of Sam laws that prohibited any criminal to make a book on the offense they had committed and sale it for profit. If the perpetrator sold the story of his crime the victim would be able to sue for the profit amount and get restitution back for the crime that was done against them (Schmalleger, Hall, & Dolatowski, 2010.)California still prohibits felon from selling and profiting money from the victim’s expense. The last right that victim has in to do a victims statement at the trial of the criminal perpetrator to let the jury know of what he or she has been trough and of the crime that they were victims of (Schmalleger, Hall, & Dolatowski,