Crime victims’ rights commissioners

Public Interest Entities in a Regulatory Regime

Bibliographic Data

ID6192532
AuthorsRobyn L Holder (0000-0002-1610-3544, Griffith University, corresponding author), Tyrone Kirchengast (0000-0001-7517-3537, Law School, Sydney University, Sydney, Australia)
Year2021
Volume45
Issue1
Pages67-87
Publication date2021-01-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0192-4036 • E-ISSN: 2157-6475
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01924036.2020.1719527
OpenAlexW3005139387
LanguageEN
References cited30

The legal force of crime victims’ rights is ambiguous: are they service standards or legal rights? This question has created confusion about the nature of compliance and bifurcates the enforcement mechanism as administrative or legal. Regulatory analysis creates a wider lens to this debate. In this article, we conceive victims’ rights charters as part of a regulatory regime designed to influence the conduct of state agencies in discharging their functions. Rights compliance and enforcement as a regulatory challenge provides a framework for systematic analysis of regulatory instruments, tools and strategies chosen by key actors. We use a case study of statutory crime victims' rights commissioners in Australia to illustrate the implications of these choices. We suggest that clearer articulation of the techniques of compliance show the coexistence of administrative and legal sanctioning. Our argument turns attention to the duties imposed on public institutions of criminal justice and their accountability

Business · Criminology · Law and economics · Political science · Public interest · Sociology · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Criminal Law and Evidence · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies

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