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Criminal Justice in Need of a Paradigm Shift

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Over the last four decades, victims’ rights rapidly emerged in criminal proceedings across Europe. Since the late 1970s, the Council of Europe has been the main actor driving this development by drawing up a mounting body of standards. Among them feature most prominently Resolution (77) 27 on the Compensation of Victims of Crime, adopted by the Committee of Ministers in September 1977, the European Convention on the Compensation of Victims of Violent Crime (ETS No. 116, 1983), Recommendation No. R (85) 11 on the position of the victim in the framework of criminal law and procedure of June 1985 and by Recommendation No. R (87) 21 on the assistance to victims and the prevention of victimisation. Such standards serve to ensure that the victim is given more procedural rights in the criminal justice system.

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Dearing, A. (2017). Criminal Justice in Need of a Paradigm Shift. In: Justice for Victims of Crime. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45048-3_1

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