| Summary: | Almost all rehabilitation programs have failed to alter criminals' habits or reduce recidivism rates. The existing criminal justice system furthers victimises crime victims, reducing them to items of evidence used to determine guilt or innocence. This is because crimes have historically been treated as offences against the state rather than against the actual victims. In this study, Evers argues that crime would be reduced, and greater justice done to victims, by changing the current criminal justice system to one emphasising punitive restitution, with the crime victim at the centre of the process.
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