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NOVA provides a toll-free helpline (800-TRY-NOVA) which annually affords thousands of crime and disaster victims in every state access to crisis intervention and referrals for services in their local community.

For example, you can say how many people you have helped (for example, a number of participants in an extension program or clinical trial), how long your work has lasted or will last or how many people might be reached by a report you intend to write. Numbers help understand the importance of your work.

A Victim Impact Statement is used in the plea hearing to tell the court how the crime has affected you. If you receive a summons or subpoena to give evidence about your Victim Impact Statement, you must go to court. Give your statement to the legal team prosecuting the case.

What is the purpose of a Victim Impact Statement? It provides an opportunity to express in your own words what you, your family, and others close to you have experienced as a result of the crime. Many victims also find it helps provide some measure of closure to the ordeal the crime has caused.

Your witness statement may be used as evidence in court. You don't have to give a statement but you might still be asked to go to court and say what you know.

Victim advocates are trained to support victims of crime. They offer emotional support, victims' rights information, help in finding needed resources and assistance in filling out crime victim related forms. Our advocates frequently accompany victims and their family members through the criminal justice proceedings.

ing to the Indian legal framework, the term victim is defined under Section 2(wa) of the CrPC, 1973 as a person who has suffered any loss or injury caused by reason of the act or omission for which the accused person has been charged and the expression victim includes his or her guardian or legal heir.

A Victim Impact Statement is your avenue of informing decision makers in the criminal justice system how your life has been impacted by crime and how you feel about an offender being released back into the community.