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Presentation Financial compensation for victims of crime; accessing the prejudice, indicators and evidences

Document number
3288
Date
27 May 2019
Title
Presentation Financial compensation for victims of crime; accessing the prejudice, indicators and evidences
Author/publisher
Silvia Berbec Pro Refugio
Availability
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Keywords
compensation prejudices indicators evidence
Summary
Pro Refugia has identified numerous challenges related to access to compensation. For example they noted a lack of empathy among prosecutors and judges for the victims, expected to be partly caused by the fact that trainings for legal professionals do often not focus on revictimization by the criminal justice system, the impact of trauma of PTSD and or the relevance of psychological reports when assessing the damage.