California Penal Code

§ 13835

PEN § 13835Title 6 · Part 4 · Ch. 4 · Art. 2

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares as follows:

(a)That there is a need to develop methods to reduce the trauma and insensitive treatment that victims and witnesses may experience in the wake of a crime, since all too often citizens who become involved with the criminal justice system, either as victims or witnesses to crime, are further victimized by that system.

(b)That when a crime is committed, the chief concern of criminal justice agencies has been apprehending and dealing with the criminal, and that after police leave the scene of the crime, the victim is frequently forgotten.

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Legislative history

Repealed and added by Stats. 1983, Ch. 1312, Sec. 2.