The Rights of Victims under eu Legislation

Abstract

Today the science and practice of contemporary crime, the perpetrator and the victim are treated as part of the same problem connected among themselves and not as separate issues. This is no doubt in order to combat crime and efficient protection of society in general.

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the development of the role of the victim in criminal law in general, as well as to highlight the importance and the need to protect the position of victims of crime in terms of arrangements with legal norms.  Issues related to the victim should be regulated by legal norms and their rights should be an integral part of human rights in general. By conducting a criminal all the attention of authorities prosecuting directed to the offender, to take all necessary measures for the detection, apprehension and punishment, forgetting that this offense is damaged another subject, the who is the victim. Victim not remain nothing but to be a witness of a process that takes place on it. Victims are usually treated without respect or without any consideration of the status they have, a point such that they prefer do not denounce the crime to the competent authorities. Through this work i want to treat what rights have victims of a criminal offense? Of their need for fair treatment  and with dignity of competent bodies, their need for compensation as well as their need for rehabilitation and reintegration into society. Stressing the obligation of our state to take all necessary legislative measures in accordance with international laws to guarantee legal protection for victims of crime.