- Title
- Victims’ Participatory Rights
- Creator
- Camilleri, Marg; Harkness, Alistair
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/189225
- Identifier
- vital:17400
- Identifier
- 10.1007/978-3-031-19063-6_12
- Identifier
- ISBN:9783031190650
- Abstract
- Victims of crime are key to holding perpetrators to account. Despite being instigators of reports, victim/survivors of sexual assault have long felt alienated from the court process and criminal justice system more broadly. This chapter draws on contemporary literature to consider the contested terrain of “participatory rights” for victim/survivors. Highlighted are a range of reforms implemented since 1994 which elevate the voices and acknowledge the experiences of victim/survivors. Despite the reforms, victim/survivors continue to feel alienated and, in particular, the voices of victim/survivors with cognitive impairment and complex communication needs are sometimes ignored at the point of first report. Considered here are the barriers to effective reform implementation and proposed reforms for continuous advocacy and legal representation. This chapter supports calls for legal representation to continue through to the conclusion of trial proceedings.
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG
- Relation
- Australian Courts : controversies, challenges and change Chapter 12 p. 269-296
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright @ The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- Subject
- Cognitive impairment; Complex communication needs; Courts; Justice system; Participatory rights; Sexual assault; Victim/survivors
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