The Rights of Victims in Criminal Justice Proceedings for Serious Human Rights Violations addresses a question of critical importance to policy-makers, internat

International standards on the rights and interests of the victims of crime -- International consensus on crime victims' rights and interests -- Crime victims'

Progressive criminal justice systems are increasingly paying attention to the need to protect victims psychologically, physically, financially and legally. The

After having ignored victims, only recently both domestic and international law have begun to pay attention to them. As a consequence, different international n

This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the proced