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Sample essays :: Political science
Political science
Victimless Crimes and Responses to Victimization.
(abstract)
...In 1982 the Sixth Amendment was recommended to include the rights of crime victims. The Task Force, appointed by President Ronald Reagan, concluded that: "The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them." (Victims’ Rights Amendment is All Wrong, by Dave Kopel and Elisabeth Semel, 1996. pp.2-4). And soon national crime victims’ leaders started to investigate and examine the possibilities to implement these recommendations to the U.S. Constitution. They decided to create and organization, called Victims’ Constitutional Amendment Network (Victims CAN).
The goals of the victim advocates were usually as follows: increase the strength, permanence and enforceability of victims’ rights. Speaking about strength – they meant that the rights, which are guaranteed by Constitution are actually stronger that those assured by statutes. There’s not a single law that can violate the Constitution. It would also be necessary for the public to be aware of these rights and not only people, who take part directly in the process at the court – advocates, judges and prosecutors. When it became the Constitutional law almost every person knew about it and could name the main points of it. An important point seems to be the permanence of the victims’ rights, the statues can be changed, but it is certainly not that easy to change the Constitution of a state. Enforceability is also guaranteed by including them into Constitution. Uniformity of the rights is the basis of their application irrespective of the location of crime.
The matter of the victims’ rights to be or not to be a part of Constitution is still a rather controversial question. Anybody in this world can at any time become a victim, so this question touches everybody either directly or potentially...
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