Community service is regarded as an excellent victim restoration model that can benefit individual victims or society in general. APPA also endorses community service as a condition of supervision for offenders selected for participation in community-based correctional programs including fine option and parole release programs. Victims have a legitimate right and need to know how the criminal justice system works. Probation and parole agencies should initiate efforts to become involved with victim service agencies and coalitions to improve opportunities for providing quality information and referrals. Every effort should be made for Victim Impact Statements to be included in Presentence Reports for adult as well as juvenile offenders when the victim does not choose to directly allocute in court or in addition to allocution.
Victims have a right to financial restitution and compensation.
Particular attention should be given to the needs of victims of family violence, including child abuse and neglect and elder neglect and abuse. Partner abuse victims should be involved in the supervision process if they so choose as they are at extreme risk of further crime victimization by the same offender. Victims are entitled to be present at sentencing proceedings. APPA believes that, upon request from the victim, sex offenders should receive mandatory testing for H.I.V., and that victims of these crimes who request test results should receive such notification. Collaborative relationships that foster cross-training should be established with victim service programs to ensure the promotion of improved services for victims of crime in our society.