Victim Satisfaction with Criminal Justice: A Systematic Review

Laxminarayan, Malini; Bosmans, Mark; Porter, Robert; Sosa, Lorena

doi:10.1080/15564886.2012.763198

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“…In response to the inadequate treatment of victim-survivors within the criminal justice system, much international victimological research has focused on how victim-survivors experience the criminal justice process, framed in terms of their level of satisfaction with the criminal justice system (e.g. Laxminarayan et al 2013;Felson and Pare 2008;Erez et al 1997;Erez and Bienkowska 1993). These studies have predominantly been based on quantitative data and less research has focused on what satisfaction and fairness mean to the people involved in legal proceedings (cf.…”

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‘A Witness in My Own Case’: Victim–Survivors’ Views on the Criminal Justice Process in Iceland

Antonsdóttir

2018

Fem Leg Stud

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Arguments in favour of strengthening the rights of victim-survivors in the criminal justice process have largely been made within the framework of a human rights perspective and with a view to meeting their procedural needs and minimising their experiences of secondary victimisation. In this article, however, I ask whether the prevalent legal arrangement, whereby victim-survivors are assigned the legal status of witnesses in criminal cases, with limited if any rights, is a just arrangement. In order to answer this question, the article draws on interviews with 35 victim-survivors of sexual violence in Iceland. The interviews are presented against the backdrop of Nordic legal thinking and are interpreted in the context of Nancy Fraser's democratic theory of justice. On the basis of the findings, I argue that assigning complainants the role of witnesses constitutes a case of misframing that results in misrecognition throughout the criminal justice process.

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‘A Witness in My Own Case’: Victim–Survivors’ Views on the Criminal Justice Process in Iceland

Antonsdóttir

2018

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“…Prior systematic literature reviews have often searched for studies that used victims´satisfaction with the criminal justice system as an indicator of effectiveness (e.g. Laxminarayan, Bosmans, Porter, & Sosa, 2013;Kunst, Popelier, & Varekamp, 2015;Wedlock & Tapley, 2016), but satisfaction, due to its generic meaning, is not an appropriate outcome measure to assess legal rights´effectiveness (cf. Biffi et al, 2016).…”

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Knowing from where to start: a plea for more and better systematic literature reviews about the effectiveness of legal rights for crime victims

Kunst

2020

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justi

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Victimologists have often called for more empirical research into the effectiveness of legal rights for crime victims. In this article I contend that it is currently too early to heed such calls due to the lack of insight into prior research addressing this topic. I argue that systematic literature reviews can help us to get this insight, particularly if they adhere to the principles of the realist synthesis approach. A core strength of this approach is that it enables the interpretation of results from statistical analyses in relation to the theoretical mechanisms underlying the legal rights of interest and the contexts in which they have been implemented. This is not only important to set a sound agenda for future research, but also to direct the development and implementation of these rights and, eventually, to have crime victims truly benefit from them. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…These include racial disparities in arrests (Kochel, Wilson, and Mastrofski, ), police shootings of African Americans (Patterson and Swan, ), gun carrying (Koper and Mayo‐Wilson, ), effective police leadership (Pearson‐Goff and Harrington, ), the impact of police on crime (Telep and Weisburd, ), and the legitimacy crisis policing facing policing then and now (Mazerolle et al., ). The Commission () missed other topics that have since risen to the fore and can support their own reviews, including terrorism (Lum, Kennedy, and Sherley, ) and victim satisfaction (Laxminarayan, Bosmans, Porter, and Sosa, ) . There is even a book‐length review of reviews (Weisburd, Farrington, and Gill, ) and a continually updated summary of what affects what in policing (Lum and Koper, ).…”

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The Commission and the Police

Skogan¹

2018

Criminology & Public Policy

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The major conclusions advanced in the 1967 report by the U.S. President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice under President Johnson are reviewed in this article. Six of the Commission's visions for law enforcement are described, and subsequent changes in the character of American policing are traced. Many of the concerns of the Commission linger until this day. Progress on many fronts has been halting, their impact more muted than reformers had hoped, and the framework of institutions that define law enforcement in the United States has proved remarkably resistant to change.

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Victim Satisfaction with Criminal Justice: A Systematic Review

Cited by 45 publications

References 44 publications

‘A Witness in My Own Case’: Victim–Survivors’ Views on the Criminal Justice Process in Iceland

‘A Witness in My Own Case’: Victim–Survivors’ Views on the Criminal Justice Process in Iceland

Knowing from where to start: a plea for more and better systematic literature reviews about the effectiveness of legal rights for crime victims

The Commission and the Police

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