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• Acknowledgements
• Executive Summary
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Literature review
  • 2.1 Participation and submission trends
  • 2.2 Barriers to submission
  • 2.3 Victim experiences
• 3 Methodology
  • 3.1 Study design
  • 3.2 Data sources
  • 3.3 Limitations
• 4 Findings
  • 4.1 Use of Victim Impact Statements, Community Impact Statements, and Victim Statements
    • 4.1.1 Victim Impact Statements – ICCS data from five jurisdictions
    • 4.1.2 Victim Impact Statements – provincial and territorial data
    • 4.1.3 Victim Impact Statements in review board cases – provincial and territorial data
    • 4.1.4 Community Impact Statements – provincial and territorial data
    • 4.1.5 Victim Statements – federal corrections data
  • 4.2 Case characteristics
    • 4.2.1 Offence types
    • 4.2.2 Sentence types
    • 4.2.3 Victim-accused relationship
  • 4.3 Victim characteristics
  • 4.4 Presentation of statements
• 5 Discussion
• 6 Conclusion
• 7 References
• Annex 1: Provincial and territorial administrative data on Victim Impact Statements and Community Impact Statements

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