ABSTRACT
The Common Law conceived victims of crime as little more than witnesses to a crime. Crime, as such, was typically understood as an act against the state and its laws. The Crime Victims' Rights Act (CVRA) upholds the centrality of victims in federal criminal proceedings. The Supreme Court held that this particular test did not frustrate the policy and objects, Prosecution of Offences Act 1985, even though the previous policy of the Directorate had been more favourable to private prosecutors. The sobriquet radical indicates, at the outset, a certain engagement with the socio-economic situation of victims. The key aspect of feminist victimology that relates to human rights is that of detailing the occurrence of male violence and conceiving of it in terms of broader notions of women's experience of patriarchy, which explains the everyday reality of male economic and political dominance and interpersonal violence.
