The Ombudsman for Victims of Crime Steve Sullivan has ties to victim’s rights groups who advocate for increased incarceration and criminalization.

Before he was ombudsman of this office, Steve Sullivan was the Executive Director and then the President of Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime (CRCVC) for more than a decade. He also worked for the victim's rights organization Victims of Violence in 1993 as director of research.

That advocacy often means support for a wide range of tough on crime measures. CRCVC tends to supports a punitive approach to violence and harm.

They state on their website "Statutory Release must be abolished and replaced with Earned Parole...." and that " Parole reviews should take place every 5 years for lifers."

Also CRCVC supports legislation such as Bill C-484, "Unborn Victims of Crime Act", that seeks to give a fetus rights under the law. The Pro Choice Action Network strongly opposes the bill, saying that it poses a real danger to abortion rights and to the rights of all pregnant women. The Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada also outlines 14 points as to why they oppose this bill and argue that the bill "a key step towards re-criminalizing abortion" adding that it could also "criminalize pregnant women for behaviours perceived to harm their fetuses."

The Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime has also spoken out in favour of Bill C-2, the tough on crime omnibus bill, officially known as the "Tackling Violent Crime Act".

This bill was passed in February and increases the use of mandatory minimum sentences, creates a three strikes law for dangerous offender designation that reverses the onus as well as several other tough on crime measures.

One of CRCVC's current board members and a founder of Victims of Violence, Sharon Rosenfeldt, was chosen by the Conservative government to be one of the six people who sat on the panel to review the federal prison system. That panel released a report in December 2007 that called for newer bigger prisons and the scrapping of statutory release.

The CRCVC is also "proudly sponsored by the Canadian Police Association (CPA) " which considers itself the "national voice for 56,000 police personnel serving across Canada".

The CPA "has been urging governments to bring an end to Canada’s revolving door justice system." They actively supported Bill C-27 (three strikes and you are a dangerous offender unless you can prove otherwise, that eventually became apart of the Omnibus Bill C-2) and Bill C-9 (that was passed in May 2007 and limits the use of conditional sentencing).