Victims of crime have brought changes to the criminal justice system throughout the Western world. In Brazil, the Public Prosecutor's Office has taken responsibility for protecting their rights. Since 2017, the National Council of Public Prosecutors has established a policy of valuing victims and, to this end, has promoted new practices in criminal justice. The aim of this article is to understand whether these new practices involving victims can represent anything new in relation to the ideas of modern penal rationality. This research is based on an empirical corpus of official documents produced between 2017 and 2021 by the Public Prosecutor's Office. We carried out a qualitative analysis of these documents using a predominantly deductive approach, and the results point to a permanence in the way of understanding crime and criminal sanctions that do not change with greater attention to the victim.