ABSTRACT
The comparison of victim rights frameworks between like, hybrid, and distinct jurisdictions draws out the degree to which each jurisdiction is converging towards international norms as identified in Chapter 2. Although this book is concerned with convergence, it is the degree of convergence in the context of the local which seeks to establish the argument regarding the importance of local context for the integration of international human rights norms for victims of crime. As such, the comparison of the countries, states, and jurisdictions set out in this book will be considered in terms of several interrelated trends in legal and policy change, as relevant and dominant characteristics of the twenty-first-century repositioning of the victim as an agent of justice.
