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Safe Horizon, formerly the Victim Services Agency, [6] is the largest victim services nonprofit organization in the United States, [7] [8] providing social services for victims of abuse and violent crime. Operating at 57 locations [9] throughout the five boroughs of New York City. [10]
Who Gets What: Fair Compensation after Tragedy and Financial Upheaval. New York City: PublicAffairs. ISBN 9781586489779. Feinberg, Kenneth (2005). What is Life Worth?: The Unprecedented Effort to Compensate the Victims of 9/11. Perseus Books Group. ISBN 9781586484514.
The September 11th Fund was created by The New York Community Trust [1] and the United Way of New York City [2] in response to the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. The Fund collected $534 million from more than two million donors and distributed a total of 559 grants totaling $528 million.
The Office for Victims of Crime, established by the Victims of Crime Act (VOCA) of 1984, administers the Crime Victims Fund. The fund is financed by fines paid by convicted federal offenders. As of September 2013, the Fund balance had reached almost $9 billion.
Simon & Schuster v. Crime Victims Board, 502 U.S. 105 (1991), was a Supreme Court case dealing with Son of Sam laws, which are state laws that prevent convicted criminals from publishing books about their crime for profit. [1]
Ex-NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton says the city needs more cops to crack down on subway mayhem and other crime, noting there were thousands more officers when he was first in charge in the 1990s.
The Crime Victim Fund, established together with the Crime Victim Compensation and Support Authority, allows the provision of state compensation and of economic support for research, education and support on crime victims. [124] Crime victims became its own category of responsibility for Swedish social services in 2001 through the Social ...
After numerous revisions, New York adopted a new "Son of Sam" law in 2001. [4] This law requires that victims of crimes be notified whenever a person convicted of a crime receives $10,000 (US) or more from virtually any source. [ 5 ]