Sexual offences review makes almost 200 recommendations for change

[Jim Burton]

This is kind of like "panel of 50 health and safety officials make list of 500 recommendations for best practices on weather-stricken fishing vessels".

https://news.stv.tv/scotland/scottish-s ... for-change

Almost 200 recommendations for change have been made as part of a major review of how prosecutors in Scotland deal with sexual offences.

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC, Scotland’s most senior prosecutor, commissioned the research, adding that it would be crucial in “building a system which recognises, respects and responds to the needs of victims”.

With sexual offences accounting for 70% of business in Scotland’s high courts, the review was led by Susanne Tanner KC, who has extensive experience of both prosecuting and defending rape and serious sexual offence cases.

[Not Forever]

Are there other crimes where people focus on listening to the victims and looking at their needs? I mean... let's pretend I get robbed, would anyone ever interview me to ask if the system has acknowledged, respected, and responded to my needs as a victim?

It always raises an eyebrow for me how the same narrative is used when specific topics are addressed, and I suspect this attention only exists if the victims are women or minors. But maybe this is just my personal prejudice since, where I live, all these discussions are directed exclusively towards women.