ABSTRACT
Many of the studies take a historical approach to compensation, and considered altogether, the research can be viewed as a chronicle of victim compensation's historical development. Consequently, the literature review will clarify the evolution of such plans, as well as highlight their underlying theories, controversies, and modern day manifestations. This survey will enable an analysis of the defenses and critiques of victim compensation, the possible alternatives, the purposes and administration of such plans, and the evaluations of compensation programs. More than simply citing the aforementioned inadequacies of the crime victim's existing remedies, many have derived theories to justify victim compensation. This study presents goal-oriented research, which focuses not so much on the policymaking process producing compensation programs as on board decisionmaking and on the plan's effectiveness in achieving its objectives. It is by conducting program assessments according to these two major evaluative approaches that this study will hopefully provide a significant addition to the existing victim-compensation literature.
