After 2,380 years of being outlawed by civilization,  "victim assistance awards" were reestablished in the US in 1965 by California Supreme Court Justice Francis McCarty.

Wyoming now pays $10,057 to a woman who helps convict a "stalker"--14 times as much as a woman receives for being hit by a truck http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/fund/sbsmap/ovccpwy1.htm

Per the Office for Victims of Crime, "Crime Victims Awards" range from $10,000 to $25,000 http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/ovc/factshts/cvfvca.htm

Wyoming pays crime victims $10,000 http://www.state.wy.us/~ag/victims/comp.html

Tennessee pays "rape victims" $3,000 for pain and suffering http://www.mtsu.edu/~jdaniel/compfund.htm

Texas pays crime victims $50,000 http://www.utexas.edu/cee/dec/tcleose/famviol/compensation.html

Oregon pays "rape survivors" awards for "surviving" the crime http://landru.leg.state.or.us/ors/147.html

Fells Acres "victims" get $20 million to testify against the Amirault's.

Frank Zepezauer on the change in mentality after "Victim Assistance Awards" were implemented.

The number of American men behind bars increased ten fold since then, leaving one third of the world's inmates, two thirds of the world's rapists, and three quarters of the world's lawyers, in the US.

The history of Victim compensation awards.