Legal Cases for Victims of Criminal Victims and the Right to be healed from the State

Abstract

The main purpose of the research is the study of legal measures to remedy and help victims in criminal cases. According to the Act of compensation for the victim, compensation for the defendant, and expenses for the defendant in the criminal cases in 2001, which was enacted to stipulate the compensation rate for the victim that according to the criminal code in sexual offences and offences against life and body. The defendant will receive compensation and expenses, in case that the court has decided a judgment that the defendant is not an offender or it appears that the defendant is not an offender and has already withdrawn the lawsuit. The problems that happened before the law enforcement for over ten years, it was found that more than eighty percents of the victims and the heirs of the victims who had died did not file to request for the compensation within one year from the date that the victim knows the offence. The defendant must file at the same time that the court allowed to withdraw the lawsuit or the court has decided to dismiss the lawsuit that the defendant is not an offender. Subsequently, they may not request compensation, the main cause is that victims who did not request because they do not know the aforementioned rights.Therefore, the rights of the victim in the criminal justice system that will be protected properly and enough for the victim to have rights to request for compensation that the law has stipulated and must be the person that gets damages against life, body and mind due to criminal offence of another person by which he was not involved in the offence. Therefore, if the victim involved in the offence, the victim will not have the rights to request any compensation.