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Date: April 29, 2024 Mon
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Results for victim services (northern ireland)
1 results foundAuthor: Northern Ireland Criminal Justice Inspection Title: The care and treatment of victims and witnesses in the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland, incorporating the use of special measures: A follow-up review of inspection recommendations Summary: Supporting victims and witnesses, and treating them as central to the delivery of criminal justice, has been a key political and moral objective for many years. Unfortunately in the past the rhetoric had continually fallen short of the citizens' reality as they engaged as victims and witnesses with the criminal justice system. Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland (CJI) has rightly continued to focus on this critical issue and produced a series of reports highlighting the deficits in effective service delivery and the need for greater partnership working to secure improvements. Since devolution, the political support for raising the status of victims and witnesses has injected real dynamism into the criminal justice agencies as they moved the subject further up their organisational agendas and together with the Department of Justice (DoJ), began to develop a more effective partnership approach to tackling the deficits. This follow-up review charts the very good progress made by the criminal justice agencies in response to our 2011 report 'The care and treatment of victims and witnesses in the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland' and 2012 publication 'The use of special measures in the criminal justice system in Northern Ireland'. Delivering the achievement of 96% against recommendations is a testament to the efforts of those who are striving to transform the experience of the victims and witnesses who are the mainstay of our criminal justice system. This progress is welcomed and must now become the baseline against which minimum service standards are set. We know that more can be done and I would urge that justice agencies do not become complacent or see this as 'job done', but view it as the start of a journey towards even greater public confidence. Details: Belfast: Criminal Justice Inspection Northern Ireland, 2015. 43p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 3, 2015 at: http://www.cjini.org/CJNI/files/7c/7c2edadb-98a3-4ff8-a5f8-dd78d5bd254d.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.cjini.org/CJNI/files/7c/7c2edadb-98a3-4ff8-a5f8-dd78d5bd254d.pdf Shelf Number: 135153 Keywords: Victim Services (Northern Ireland)Victims of CrimeWitnesses |