Community-Based Sentencing: The Perspectives of Crime Victims
Acknowledgements
This research could not have been conducted without the financial assistance of the Research Division of the Department of Justice Canada. We would like to acknowledge the assistance of the following individuals:
- Susan McDonald from the Research Division, Department of Justice Canada for guidance throughout the project and helpful comments on an earlier draft of this report;
- Catherine Kane, from the Policy Centre for Victim Issues, Department of Justice Canada;
- Jody Barber from the University of Ottawa provided considerable assistance in arranging the sessions and interviews in Ottawa and serving as rapporteur;
- Tom Finlay from the library of the Centre of Criminology for conducting the literature review.
In addition, the following individuals provided invaluable assistance in contacting individual victims to participate in the study:
- Nevina Crisante, counsel to the Ontario Victim/ Witness Assistance Program;
- Tanya Lalonde-Desjardins and Rachelle Laurin from the Victim/Witness Assistance Program in Ottawa;
- Marie Tenn and Linda Chihab from the Victim/Witness Assistance Program in Toronto;
- Kimberly Mann from the Collaborative Justice Project in Ottawa;
- Lynne Weagle, a first year student at the University of Toronto's Faculty of Law, for a review of conditional sentences cases reported on computer data bases.
We would like to express our gratitude to the Crown counsel who took time from their extremely busy schedules to provide their views and experience, and to the Victims' Advocates for sharing their insight and experiences.
Finally, our greatest debt is to the crime victims who took the time to discuss their difficult, often painful experiences with us during the course of the discussions and interviews.
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