• E4J University Module Series: Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice

• Module 11: Access to Justice for Victims

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Topic 1: Understanding the concept of victims of crime and a short history of victimology
  • Topic 2: The impact of crime, including trauma
  • Topic 3: The rights of victims to an adequate response to their needs
  • Topic 4: Collecting victim data
  • Topic 5: Victims and their participation in the Criminal Justice Process
  • Topic 6: Victim services, institutional and non-governmental organization
  • Topic 7: A brief outlook on current developments regarding victims
  • Topic 8: Victims and international law, including international human rights law and international criminal law
  • Summary
  • References

• Exercises

• Case studies

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

• Guidelines to develop a stand-alone course

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• First published in July 2019
  

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  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Core reading

 

The following provides a list of open access core readings that the student should complete before taking the class based on this Module. It also recommends advanced readings for students interested in exploring the topic in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module.

• United Nations (1985). Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power (A/RES/40/34). New York: United Nations.
• Explore the website of Victim Support Europe to learn more about assistance to victims.
• Read about victims and the International Criminal Court.
• Rauschenbach, Mina and Scalie, David (2008). Victims and international criminal justice: a vexed question. International Review of the Red Cross , Volume 90 Number 870.
• Letschert, Rianne and Groenhuisen, Marc (2011). Global governance and global crime: Do victims fall in between? In R. M. Letschert, & J. J. M. Dijk, eds. The new faces of victimhood. Dordrecht: Springer.

 

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