Answer to Question #250553 in Law for Zonke

Question

How can victims be assisted in a criminal justice system?

Answer 1

Victims can be assisted in the criminal justice system by compensation for victims of crime, the rights and safeguards for victims in criminal proceedings, and the situation regarding victims of domestic violence, are the main object of this study. The second level involves verifying how these legislative assumptions actually work in practice in the justice system. Assessing whether, and to what extent, victims of crime have been able to exercise their rights, i.e., the extent to which the justice system takes the interests of victims of crime into consideration and ensures that they are supported and protected and not subjected to secondary victimization, has been made possible by analyzing a variety of victimological studies. The third level involves analyzing discourse. Some of the public debate on signing the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, which was recently held in Poland, is elucidated and explained.