Crime Victims

The Reverend Christobal Kimmenez has joined others in calling for greater services for survivors of crime and the formerly incarcerated, including restorative justice.

After a carjacking, I had to navigate a chaotic patchwork of resources in search of support. To heal, I would take recovery into my own hands.

Our legal system focuses on punishing those who cause harm without considering what victims need, a former prosecutor writes.

Instead of co-opting victims’ voices, political candidates and elected officials should center them.

Survivors’ needs and opinions vary—and many have not found justice when they turn to the criminal legal system.

William Barr says the government owes it to the victims and their families to resume federal executions. In doing so, he’s ignoring important facts about the death penalty—and the actual wishes of victims’ families.

With Danielle Sered of Common Justice

In a letter to the sentencing judge, the Minnesota representative called for compassion toward the man who pleaded guilty to threatening to kill her.

The state’s narrow interpretation gives too much weight to voices that support a punitive criminal legal system, advocates say.

A widely shared, recent piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer tells the story of a woman’s grief six months after her husband was murdered. Gerry Grandzol was shot at close range by two young Black men while he was unpacking groceries from his SUV with his two young daughters. The family, which is white, lived in a typically […]