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Interesting new paper on victims rights to restitution in Illinois

By Douglas A. Berman

I just notice on SSRN this new paper titled "Monetary Remedies for Victims During Illinois Criminal Cases." Here is the abstract: The Illinois Crime Victim?s Rights Amendment, added to the Illinois Constitution by the legislature and the voters in 1992, includes a 'right to restitution'.  The amendment spurred some new legislation, now within the Rights of Crime Victims and Witnesses Act.  But most crime victims still have little chance for restitution or other monetary remedies during criminal cases. Other remedies include recoveries from a state fund guided by the Crime Victims Compensation Act and recoveries ordered at sentencing under the Unified Code of Corrections Act.  The paper first examines the Illinois constitutional right to restitution and the three separate acts recognizing possible monetary remedies for crime victims during criminal cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on May 26, 2009 (boomark / email).