Legal Reference Guides

Published in 2024, this resource is designed to improve victim services personnel’s knowledge and understanding of crime victims’ rights in South Carolina. It provides an overview of key concepts and laws that can help victims make meaningful choices about their rights. Because laws change and can be complex, this Guide does not include all victims’ rights-related laws. It is not legal advice, and does not substitute for legal advice. Access here.

Published in 2024, This resource is designed to enhance victim services personnel’s knowledge and understanding of the law governing crime victims’ rights to privacy, confidentiality and privilege in South Carolina. It provides an overview of key concepts and excerpts of key legal citations that can help facilitate victims’ meaningful choices regarding these rights. To keep this Guide as userfriendly as possible in light of the breadth, complexity and evolving nature of law, the Guide does not include all laws. It does not constitute legal advice, nor does it substitute for legal advice. Access here.

Published in 2018, this guide is meant to provide practitioners new to crime victims’ rights enforcement with a “quick reference” guide to our State’s applicable cases and laws. This publication is in no way a substitute for reading, in their entirety, the Victims’ Bill of Rights and the crime victims’ rights statutes.
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This website is funded through under Grant No. 2020-V3-GX-K016, awarded by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this website are those of the contributors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
This website was made possible by a subgrant from the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) pursuant to Grant No. 2017-VF-GX-K130, awarded to NCVLI by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of NCVLI.
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This Web site was made possible by a subgrant from the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) pursuant to Grant No. 2017-VF-GX-K130, awarded to NCVLI by the Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of NCVLI.
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