Module 6 Victim Written Assignment

Criminal Justice
Name
Institution
Course
Date

The prosecutor’s website of counties in Ohio provides information on what the prosecutors do in each county. Web sites of rural, suburban and inner-city attorney’s websites in Ohio provide services that serve the people in the various counties. The prosecutor’s website is used as a source of information for victims of different crimes. Victims receive a broad range of services from the attorney’s office (“Athens, OH – Official Website – Law Department,” n.d.). The websites of the prosecutor’s office all provide information on the rights of victims. They also provide information on the duties and responsibilities of the different division of the prosecutor’s office.
The quality of services offered by the prosecutor’s office in rural and suburban areas and inner city vary. Example rural prosecutor’s offices normally have challenges in providing assistance to victims of different crimes. The prosecutor’s office has several problems such as staffing limitations hence perpetrators of the crimes are not adequately prosecuted. The variations are due to differences in funding (“Ohio Public Sector Attorneys | Cleveland Real Estate Lawyers | Nicola, Gudbranson & Cooper, LLC,” n.d.). Due to the assumption that rural areas have lower crime rates and smaller population means that the funds allocated to them are lesser than the urban areas. Limitations in funds in the rural county lead to problems such as staffing and hence services provided are to victims are of poor quality compared to the suburban and inner city prosecutors offices (“Welcome to the Law Director’s Home Page | Lancaster, OH – Official Website,” n.

d.).
The services provided by the different prosecutor’s office do not vary so much. The services are mostly the same in rural, suburban and inner-city areas. The services include personal advocacy that serves to meet crime victims at crime scenes. Such services are important in familiarizing the people of the different counties with the judicial system. Other services include victim compensation and even public participation. The publication of the victim and witness rights serves to improve services offered to crime victims. The quality, amount, and variation of services provided by the prosecutors of the different counties can hence be described as mostly the same except for very few differences that are caused by the differences in the fund allocated for the different prosecutor’s office.

References
Athens, OH – Official Website – Law Department. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ci.athens.oh.us/index.aspx?NID=118
Ohio Public Sector Attorneys | Cleveland Real Estate Lawyers | Nicola, Gudbranson & Cooper, LLC. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.nicola.com/attorneys/cicero/
Welcome to the Law Director’s Home Page | Lancaster, OH – Official Website. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.ci.lancaster.oh.us/196/Law-Director