“…As a result, victims are treated as objects and used by legal actors in order to advance their case. The absence of any role for victims in the criminal justice system, other than that of witness, is often seen as the root of victims' frustration with criminal justice and an important source of secondary victimization (Baril, Durand, Cousineau, Gravel, 1985;Shapland, 1985;Wemmers, Cyr, 2004;Cyr, 2008;Van Camp, Wemmers, 2011).…”