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Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers

  • document cover of Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers: Selected Resources Annotated Bibliography

    Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers: Selected Resources Annotated Bibliography

    Victims have statutory rights that begin the moment a crime is committed against them. Ideally, victims would be fully informed of their rights at every step in the process: at the time the crime is reported, during the justice process, while the offender is incarcerated, and when the offender reenters the community. Different criminal justice stakeholders are responsible for victim services at different stages of this process. National Institute of Corrections’ project, “Post-Conviction Victim Service Providers” will focus on victim...

  • document cover for Recommendations for Practice: Post-Conviction Victims' Rights and Services

    Recommendations for Practice: Post-Conviction Victims' Rights and Services

    In 2017, the National Institute of Corrections and the National Crime Victim Law Institute began work on a project to analyze existing rights and services, identify gaps and opportunities for inter-agency collaboration, and draft a set of recommendations to assist jurisdictions in the development of systems to improve rights compliance and implementation of integrated trauma-informed services post conviction.

    Stakeholders participating in this project collaboratively envisioned a model of trauma-informed post-conviction systems, processes, laws, and policies that were responsive to the...