Example Of A Victim Impact Statement

Substance abuse programs will be the final program that I would keep. Society now days has a large population of people who are addicted, most of which will say they had no one there to educate them about the drug and no one willing to help them become clean and sober. While most jails will say religion is the most important part, in my opinion anyone can have religion by their choice inside a facility or outside but education, mental health and substance abuse programs help to prepare a person for the outside world and all that entails there life’s once they are released.
The victim impact statement assists the judge when he or she decides what sentence the defendant should receive. Although the judge will decide the defendant’s sentence
M. (1993) Victim Impact statements can be a very, emotional, intense and crucial part of a trial, while we look at all the evidence, piecing everything together, painting a picture or story we never really know the crime until we hear how it has affected all those involved.
While the impact statement can paint a picture and help us to feel the emotional distress it has caused all those involved, a victim impact statement or a VIS, impact statements main purpose is to allow crime victims, during the decision-making process on sentencing or parole, to describe to the court or parole board the impact of the crime. Wernikoff, S. M. (1993), a judge may use information from these statements to help determine an offender's sentence.
In the case of Homan the impact statement, I don’t know how much of an impact it would have had. Gill didn’t have much of a social setting with friends except for those of the strip club and with that being said most of the strippers had drug and arrest records. His parents statements as well would not have been very helpful in the case, in the article it states that Gill was adopted and his parents learned of his delay, when he turned of age to drive he was given a car and he earned his freedom, we don’t hear much about the parents until the death. In this case it would seem that the parents did not have a close relationship to Gill. The most crucial statement would have come from Emma and her incite on what actually took place did Gill do anything sexual to her, what happened in those moments, could Emma’s testimony help her father’s case or not. Impact statements can be a very sensitive time and in the case I feel that there would not be anything anyone can