Criminal Justice Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Date Rights of the Victims of Crime Victims’ rights are rights afforded lawfully to the victims of crime. The constitution of the United States started protecting crime victims after the Victim Rights Movement of the 1970s and 1980s fought for the rights of the victims and crime. The movement also created some programs that aimed at helping the victims of crime during the prosecution and even during the passage of laws at the federal, states and local levels (Waller, 2010). The movement established rights for the victims in the different countries according to the requirements of the state and these days the federal law provides...
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