Since 1982, thirty-three states have amended their constitutions to address victims' rights, and all states have passed victims' rights legislation.[1] That same year, Congress passed the first piece of federal crime victims' rights legislation, the Victim and Witness Protection Act.[12] In 1984, the Victims of Crime Act was passed. A decade later, in 1994, the Violence Against Women Act became law. In 2004, the landmark Crime Victims' Rights Act was passed, granting crime victims eight specific rights, and providing standing for individual victims to assert those rights in court.[13]