What Constitutes Success? Evaluating Legal Services for Victims of Crime скачать в хорошем качестве

What Constitutes Success? Evaluating Legal Services for Victims of Crime

The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) has called for more research into how victims’ rights provisions are implemented and enforced; whether victims receive the rights and services to which they are entitled; whether being provided these rights and services increases victims’ well-being; and whether these services improve criminal justice outcomes However, the field of victim legal services has so far lacked a conceptual framework that articulates the ultimate goals of these services, and the services can promote those goals. Such a framework can help victim legal services providers to: better craft programs that provide meaningful legal and social services to crime victims better measure the impact of their interventions through meaningful evaluation better tell their stories to the community, criminal justice, victim services, and funding stakeholders The Justice Research and Statistics Association (JRSA) and the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) were funded by the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) to create such a conceptual model through a collaborative process and to pilot test it with three legal clinics. This webinar presents the conceptual model and discusses its uses in the field, as well as the successes and challenges with testing it so far.