Victim Rights Quotes

The victims of crime have been transformed into a group oppressively burdened by a system designed to protect them.

Generally speaking, the public appetite for criminal justice policy is just tough talk.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts.

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

No one wants dangerous criminals in our communities.

We need society, and particularly the victims of crime, to believe justice is being done.

There must be real consequences for those who commit crimes in our neighborhoods.

I was a crown attorney in my home town in Nova Scotia, and I learned that victims of crime needed better laws to better protect them. I saw politics as a means to improve this protection for them.

We as a Congress have a moral obligation to bring justice to the families of these victims. Furthermore, as a society based on laws, we have a responsibility to ensure that criminals don't go unpunished.

How can it be moral to force a 14 year old girl to bear the child of a rapist?

When law enforcement violates departmental policies or operates outside of its certified training, it should not be insulated from liability to the victims of these breaches.

This case against Ghislaine Maxwell is the prequel to the earlier case that we brought against Jeffrey Epstein.

For centuries, the courts took the view that preserving the discretion of the authorities trumped the rights of victims to hold them to account. It was because of the Human Rights Act that this began to change.

No matter where they are in the world, those who commit crimes against U.S. citizens will be held accountable for their actions, pursued by our investigators and prosecutors, and brought to justice.

We cannot afford to have the confidence of the public, victims, and witnesses in our justice system undermined because the wrong people are being found guilty and the real criminals are wandering the streets.

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever.

I don't know what it's like to get to face down my attacker in court, but I do know that they lie.

Allowing suspects to indefinitely linger in our cells is, in fact, detrimental to our national security goals. If a suspect is proven to be a terrorist, for the sake of the victims and deterring any future attacks, he or she must be brought to justice. America has done this with Timothy McVeigh and hundreds of other terrorists.

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.

Should those whose actions lead to the death or injury of a child get a free pass?

The moment that justice must be paid for by the victim of injustice it becomes itself injustice.

Since suffering confers no rights on its victims, we who witness are the ones responsible for restoring these lost rights.

The people of Britain want a Home Secretary who will give them back their streets. They want a Home Secretary who will speak up for the victim, not the criminal.

I'm very tough on crimes where there are victims who have been physically harmed. In such cases, I do not believe in leniency.