States receive 0.5 points in the 'Hope After Harm' evaluation if they codify specific waivers to incarceration-based compensation denials under mitigating circumstances, such as the victim being a minor under the age of 18 or a victim of sexual assault or human trafficking.

Authors

• Person: Not available Organization: Center for American Progress
  Hope After Harm: An Evaluation of State Victim Compensation Statutes

Sources

• Hope After Harm: An Evaluation of State Victim Compensation Statutes www.americanprogress.org Center for American Progress via serper

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• sexual assault concept
• Hope After Harm evaluation concept