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Hope After Harm: An Evaluation of State Victim Compensation Statutes americanprogress.org Aug 20, 2025 11 facts
claimThe authors of 'Hope After Harm: An Evaluation of State Victim Compensation Statutes' identified four themes for their scoring rubric: awareness and accessibility, adequate compensation, eligibility barriers, and experience with the process.
claimThe Center for American Progress (CAP) and Common Justice partnered with Youth Alive!, an organization that supports survivors and works to break cycles of violence, to review focus group transcripts for the purpose of weighting their scoring rubric.
claimThe scoring rubric developed by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Common Justice consists of four central themes: awareness and accessibility, adequate compensation, experience with the process, and eligibility barriers.
procedureThe Center for American Progress (CAP) and Common Justice mapped the final ranking of each scoring rubric theme to the rubric as a multiplier for each subcategory within that theme.
procedureThe Center for American Progress (CAP) and Common Justice researchers weighted the four themes of their scoring rubric based on insights from focus group participants to ground the grading in the lived experiences of survivors and the work of victim advocates and providers.
procedureReviewers for the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Common Justice analyzed focus group transcripts to determine how the four central themes of their scoring rubric presented in the lived experience of survivors and the work of advocates and providers.
claimStates may receive partial points in the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Common Justice scoring rubric by including exceptions to policies that exclude survivors from accessing compensation.
procedureThe Center for American Progress (CAP) and Common Justice determined the final ranking of their four scoring rubric themes by asking reviewers to independently rank them, then co-reviewing, discussing, and averaging those rankings.
procedureBetween June 2024 and September 2024, the authors of 'Hope After Harm: An Evaluation of State Victim Compensation Statutes' developed subcategories for their scoring rubric based on patterns and trends from document analysis and focus groups.
claimStates with policies that directly exclude survivors from accessing compensation or that have historically led to statistical discrimination receive 0 points in the scoring rubric subcategories used by the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Common Justice.
claimStates that waive or extend the application deadline for victim compensation if an applicant shows 'good cause' or meets other conditions, such as being under the age of 18 at the time of the victimization, receive partial points in the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Common Justice scoring rubric.