Concept information
Preferred term
victim/witness protection
Definition
- The victim rights movement began in Wisconsin in the early 1980s, when that state passed the first victim protection law. Two years later, the Federal Victim and Witness Protection Act of 1982 was passed. [Source: Encyclopedia of Crime and Punishment; Victim/Witness Protection]
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/victim_witness_protection
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