The legal force of crime victims’ rights is ambiguous: are they service standards or legal rights? This question has created confusion about the nature of compliance and bifurcates the enforcement mechanism as administrative or legal. Regulatory analysis creates a wider lens to this debate. In this article, we conceive victims’ rights charters as part of a regulatory regime designed to influence the conduct of state agencies in discharging their functions. Rights compliance and enforcement as a regulatory challenge provides a framework for systematic analysis of regulatory instruments, tools and strategies chosen by key actors. We use a case study of statutory crime victims' rights commissioners in Australia to illustrate the implications of these choices. We suggest that clearer articulation of the techniques of compliance show the coexistence of administrative and legal sanctioning. Our argument turns attention to the duties imposed on public institutions of criminal justice and their accountability.

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犯罪受害者权利专员：监管制度中的公共利益实体

犯罪受害人权利的法律效力是模糊的：是服务标准还是合法权利？这个问题造成了对合规性质的混淆，并将执法机制分为行政机制或法律机制。监管分析为这场辩论创造了一个更广阔的视角。在本文中，我们将受害者权利宪章视为旨在影响国家机构履行其职能的行为的监管制度的一部分。权利合规和执法作为一项监管挑战，为系统分析主要参与者选择的监管工具、工具和策略提供了一个框架。我们使用澳大利亚法定犯罪受害者权利专员的案例研究来说明这些选择的影响。我们建议更清晰地阐述合规技术表明行政和法律制裁的共存。我们的论点将注意力转向刑事司法公共机构的职责及其问责制。