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Victims of Crime and the Criminal Process*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2014

Dionysios Spinellis
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In the last two decades the victim of crimes has been moved from the periphery to the centre of interest of penal law and criminal policy.

In the domain of substantive penal law the victimological approach created a trend toward the restriction of the field of application of certain penal provisions, especially in cases where the victim could have protected himself or herself more effectively, e.g., in fraud cases.

In the area of criminal procedure the trend has been toward an increased protection of the victim. This trend was extended gradually to the policies of crime prevention and influenced even the policies of enforcement of penal decisions and treatment of offenders. In this paper, however, I am going to address myself mainly to the problems of the protection of and assistance to the victim in the penal process, which raise a special concern, since they seem sometimes to be in conflict with other purposes of the penal law in general and the criminal process in particular.

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Israel Law Review , Volume 31 , Issue 1-3 , Winter-Summer 1997 , pp. 337 - 378
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and The Faculty of Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1997

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Professor of Law, University of Athens Law School.

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