Victims’ rights are human rights: The importance of recognizing victims as persons
In this paper the author argues that victims’ rights are human rights. Criminal law typically views victims as witnesses to a crime against the state, thus shutting them out of the criminal justice process and only allowing them in when they are needed to testify. This is a major source of dissa...
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Main Author: | Wemmers Jo-Anne |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Victimology Society of Serbia and University of Belgrade, Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation
2012-01-01
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Series: | Temida |
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Online Access: | http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/1450-6637/2012/1450-66371202071W.pdf |
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