Introducing Victim Impact Statement in India: Reconceptualizing Victim Status

No. Panggil :	eja-21-0322
Nama Orang :	Dubey, Devansh Jain, Payas






Penerbitan :	[Place of publication not identified] : Sage - Crime and Justice, 2020

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Abstrak	The right to fair trial is inherent in the concept of due process of law, which now forms part of Article 21 of Indian Constitution after the Maneka Gandhi judge ment. Pertinently attached with the same comes the responsibility of the criminal system to treat victims with increased awareness and sensitivity. However, the established convention shows that in planning and developing administration of criminal justice, proper attention is not given to the victims of crime in achieving goals of criminal justice; the major cause of it being that a victim is heard only as a witness not as a victim. A credible response to the said issue has emerged in the form of victim impact statement (VIS) in the modern legal system across the world. With that being said, the researchers through this article try to deduce the need for incorporating a VIS in India through the various jurisprudential under standings of what it means to be a victim, including the gap between the subjec tive experience of the sufferer and the interpretation of the same by others, and what restorative justice would mean to heal a victim. Establishing upon the same premise of victim status, the researchers try to suggest that the introduction of VIS, with the primary purpose of it being a therapeutic tool and not an instru ment of changing the course of justice, will serve to make us reconsider our contours of a victim.
Entri Tambahan Nama Orang
001 Hak Akses (open/membership)	membership
Kata Kunci	Victim, victim impact statement, crime, justice, law
ISSN
Tahun Terbit	2020
No. Induk	eja-21-0322
Entri Sumber Data	Sage - Crime and Justice
Entri Utama Nama orang	Dubey, Devansh; Jain, Payas
Volume, Nomor, Tahun dan Hlm.	vol. 3, no. 2, p. 147-163
Barcode	eja-21-0322
Subjek Topik
Judul Utama	Introducing Victim Impact Statement in India: Reconceptualizing Victim Status
Kode Bahasa	eng
Sumber Koleksi	Perpustakaan Nasional