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Justice Solutions — Anne Seymour’s Crime Victims and Survivors Work (2017)

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  • Focus Area: Criminal Justice Reform
  • Category: Global Health & Wellbeing
  • Organization Name: Justice Solutions
  • Amount: $112,613

  • Award Date: February 2017

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    Ms. Seymour with Rep. Ted Poe and Rep. Jim Costa of the Congressional Victims’ Rights Caucus. (Photo courtesy of Justice Solutions)
    Published: March 2017

    The Open Philanthropy Project recommended a grant of $112,613 to Justice Solutions to support an 18-month project by Anne Seymour, whom we view as a prominent and well-connected victims’ rights advocate who is supportive of criminal justice reform, with a goal of enabling her to build relationships and increase communication between the fields of victims’ rights and criminal justice reform. This grant will cover Ms. Seymour’s time, sub-grants to research institutions, a videographer, project support staff, and travel costs.

    The project aims to assess the status of victims’ rights to dignity and respect, which are included in statutes and constitutions in many states but are not defined in most of these states. The project will consist of research on existing statutory and constitutional language; meta-analysis of existing research on what factors affect the fair treatment of victims; and surveys, interviews, and roundtables to learn the views of victims, law enforcement and other stakeholders on this issue. Ms. Seymour aims to create a national dialogue around what constitutes dignified and respectful treatment of victims, which she then plans to use in advocacy with law enforcement to encourage reforms. She plans to create a website that will feature the products of her research, including interviews and quotes regarding victims’ needs.

    This is a discretionary (formerly called “no-process”) grant. For discretionary grants, the grant investigator (in this case Chloe Cockburn, our Program Officer for Criminal Justice Reform) can recommend the grant without needing to go through our normal process of providing their reasoning, discussing with the team, and providing input on and review of our public page. These grants are limited to a relatively small proportion of our grantmaking, and some other stipulations apply to what types of grant are eligible. The overall aim is for us to be able to move forward on relatively small and low-risk grants, based purely on the judgment of a single staff member and with minimal delay.

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