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This book, titled "Understanding Justice for Victims of Crime: Issues and Challenges in India, USA, UK," offers an in-depth exploration of the development of victimology and the progression of victim justice in the USA and the UK with reference to the UN Declaration of Victims of Crime, 1985. These two countries are particularly significant because they were among the earliest to recognize and uphold the rights of crime victims following the implementation of the 1985 Declaration. The laws, polices, and schemes in these countries have been analysed to locate how effective their justice delivery system is, when it comes to the victims of crime. Subsequently, turning to India, the study examines the evolution of victimology with a focus on the protection of child victims of sexual abuse and women affected by the crime of rape. The research provides an in-depth understanding of the laws, regulations, schemes, and judicial decisions towards the protection of these two categories of victims. The book further involves an empirical study with data obtained from seventeen states in India to highlight the implementation of a victim compensation scheme, which is one of the possible victim rights in India. The data informs us about the gaps between the scheme's implementation and the ordeal faced by its beneficiary, the victims, along with a comparative study of the various schemes of each state. This builds on the existing knowledge and literature on victim compensation as the scheme was first legislated in 2008 as Section 357A Cr.P.C., 1973, now Section 396 BNSS, 2023. The New Criminal Laws, 2023, has promised to provide people- centric and justice-oriented laws since the enactment of the IPC, 1860, Cr.P.C., 1973, and IEA, 1972. This book also critically analyses the new criminal laws from the victimological perspective and provides a way forward to further deal with making the Indian laws victim-oriented.