Arson Victims

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Excerpt from Arson Victims: Suggestions for a System ResponseArson has always been a particularly unattractive crime to fire service providers, police and prosecutors. Its work demands are high and unpleasant, and its success rates Iow.' Over the past decade, however, many fire departments and law enforcement agencies have concentrated resources and energies into improving the investigation and prosecution of arson cases. Commendable progress has been made in these two areas. A third major aspect of arson cases has received less attention. This is the improved treatment of those most adversely affected by the crime - the victims of arson.During the past decade, increased sensitivity to the plight of crime victims has resulted in many legislative and programmatic efforts to improve their treatment. For example, improved protections against intimidation, increased use of restitution, utilization of victim impact statements in sentencing, an emphasis on victims rights litigation, and increased services to victims are being implemented in jurisdictions around the country. Rarely however have these efforts been viewed in the context of victims of arson.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.