By: Rachel Wright

Nearly every woman carries the fear of becoming a victim of a violent crime. She may not always say it, but every time she walks to the office, takes her children on an errand run, or double-checks the lock on her front door at night, there is an underlying calculation of what she needs to do to keep herself safe.

If the unthinkable does happen, and a woman becomes a survivor of a crime committed against her, what happens then?

The justice system can feel like a linear conveyor belt, with a clean start and end. An offender commits a crime, an investigation follows, the perpetrator is prosecuted, convicted, sentenced, and often released back into society. The pattern is that every step is focused on the offender. But what does real justice look like for a victim when the headlines disappear?

[[…Read more at: The Washington Examiner…]]