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While the right to be heard during the trial and sentencing stage may be particularly important to victims, their interests can continue to be affected once verdict and sentence have been finalised. For example, where victims feel their rights during pretrial or trial have not been complied with or errors have been made during proceedings they may have an interest in being able to appeal or participate in appeals of these decisions. In addition, in all jurisdictions analysed, mechanisms exist allowing perpetrators who are sentenced to a term of imprisonment to seek early release under certain circumstances in order to serve the remainder of their sentence in the community. Early release into the community may affect victims’ safety interests given that encounters between victims and offenders become more likely. Victims may therefore have an interest in early-release decisions including the terms of such release. This chapter examines victims’ participatory rights in the context of the post-trial stage in relation to appeals and early-release proceedings. It forms the last of the three chapters in this volume providing in-depth analysis of victim participation at specific trial stages in selected jurisdictions with different legal traditions.
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Braun, K. (2019). Victim Participation Post Trial: Appeals and Early Release. In: Victim Participation Rights. Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04546-3_6
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