South Australian Current Acts South Australian Current ActsThe objects of this Act are—
(a) to
give statutory recognition to victims of crime and the harm that they suffer
from criminal offending; and
(b) to
establish principles governing how victims of crime are to be treated by
public agencies and officials; and
(c) to
help victims of crime recover from the effects of criminal offending and to
advance their welfare in other ways; and
(d) to
provide a limited statutory scheme of compensation to victims most directly
affected by criminal offending as an acknowledgement of the harm that they
suffer from criminal offending.