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Teka Commission of Legal Sciences Polish Academy of Sciences Branch in Lublin

Vol. 13 No. 2 (2020)

Articles

The Victims and the Sufficiency of their Rights in the Criminal Justice System

DOI: https://doi.org/10.32084/tekapr.2020.13.2-11  [Google Scholar]
Published: 2020-12-31

Abstract

The question of victims’ rights in the criminal proceedings is one of the most discussed question in the sphere of criminal law in the recent years. According to Howard Zehr the restorative justice system is a system that look in a special way on crime, offender and victim. In this connection it should be also said that also Catholic church encourages models of restorative justice that seek to address crime in terms of the harm done to victims and community, not simply as a violation of law. Based on the key idea of restorative justice formulated by Howard Zehr, according to whom restorative justice is primarily a means of addressing the needs of victims of crime, it is undoubtedly possible to assume the central role of the victim within the restorative concept of criminal justice.

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