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“Why should victims of crime be compensated?”

Wright, Martin
June 4, 2015

Source: (1998) Paper to 11th International Congress on Criminology, Budapest, August 1993. (Published in: Support for crime victims in a comparative perspective: essays in memory of Derick McClintock, ed. by E A Fattah and T Peters. University Press, 1998. Leuven.)

The thinking of the Victim Support independent working party on compensation, and its proposals, is outlined.

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