In response to international obligations many Western states have strengthened their responsibility for crime victims’ access to support services. This is also the case in Finland and Norway where this interview study explored the views of representatives from five key civil society organisations (CSOs) working with victims of crime in relation to the public sector’s increasing duty to organise victim support services. The findings indicate that despite the fact that improvements in victims’ access to support services were generally welcomed, there was a growing concern that the position of these traditional CSOs could – or already had – become challenged by the public and private organisations and other CSOs as new funding streams and mechanisms attract new players to the field. This had created a need to highlight the distinctiveness of these agents as CSOs working with victims of crime. This article argues that while international standards for victim support services have been a triumph for victim movements in many countries, their realisation in the present era of austerity and mixed welfare economies presents traditional victim support organisations with new challenges in retaining their ownership and distinctive ways of treating the problem of victimisation.

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“我们需要确保我们总是与众不同”

为了履行国际义务，许多西方国家加强了对犯罪受害者获得支持服务的责任。芬兰和挪威的情况也是如此，本访谈研究探讨了五个主要与犯罪受害者合作的民间社会组织 (CSO) 的代表对公共部门组织受害者支持服务日益增加的责任的看法。调查结果表明，尽管改善受害者获得支持服务的机会受到普遍欢迎，但人们越来越担心这些传统公民社会组织的地位可能——或已经——受到公共和私人组织以及其他公民社会组织的挑战，因为新的资金流和机制吸引了该领域的新参与者。这就需要强调这些代理人作为与犯罪受害者一起工作的公民社会组织的独特性。本文认为，虽然受害者支持服务的国际标准是许多国家受害者运动的胜利，但它们在当前紧缩和混合福利经济时代的实现给传统的受害者支持组织带来了新的挑战，即保留其所有权和独特的服务方式。处理受害问题。