Victim-Centered Approach Quotes

One of my priorities is giving victims the right to choose different paths to restoration and to healing. It's prioritizing having restitution available for economic harm, having victim services for the trauma and also recognizing that victims are far more than simply pieces of evidence to be used in order to secure a lengthy prison sentence.

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.

Different victims, different survivors of different crimes will choose to pursue different paths. And hopefully, over time, we can collectively transform our culture into one that prioritizes healing and prevention instead of simply focusing on punishment.

For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system.

Therefore, all my adult life, since I began my life as an author, or as a teacher, I always try to listen to the victim.

I've been really consistent throughout the campaign and since I won that I want to prioritize victims rights and I want to prioritize healing.

I want to give every victim of every crime in San Francisco the right to participate in restorative justice if they choose to.

Those fellows, they're always crying over killers. Never a thought for the victims.