Abstract
The term victim indicates a natural person that underwent some kind of crime, including psychological and mental disorder, and emotional suffering or monetary loss, that were caused by accomplishing or not accomplishing a certain kind of activity that violates the law in one state. The term Victim also includes the close members of the victim's family that depend on the victim. 'Kids, victims and witnesses of crimes' indicates kids and adolescents under 18 years of age, which are victims of different kinds of crime or witnesses of different kinds of crime, in spite of the role that they have in the crime act. In all proceedings that directly or indirectly child victims involved it is important to act in a way that is the best and most appropriate for the child.
Highlights
All kids, victims and witnesses of crime, have the right to be protected from every kind of discrimination, have the right of special protection for their own safety and for the safety of their relatives
The kids, victims of a crime are being questioned like witnesses in a way that doesn’t affect their personal psychophysical development and at the time of the questioning, the court, the police and the Attorney General are obligated to take care of the personal characteristics of the kids
The kid victim is the only witness of the crime that is being committed against him
Summary
Victims and witnesses of crime, have the right to be protected from every kind of discrimination, have the right of special protection for their own safety and for the safety of their relatives. Our legislative provides special care for kids with several acts: the Child protection law, the Law for criminal procedure and the Law for witness protection. The very notion - a child, points to the fact that children as innocent creatures are often put in situations of sexual, psychological or physical abuse to harassment and violence occur as subjects of criminal offenses and are used to commit various crimes The protection for the kidswitnesses of crime it’s not just a protection from some kind of wound or damage, there should exist some kind of standards that can secure proper and healthy growth of the kid. The fact is that this requires for the efficiency of the criminal special measures for protection and support proceedings that include trafficking of of the child victims and witnesses of children, sexual abuse of children and other crimes, so as to prevent any possible forms of organized crimes, where the only victimization in the process of criminal witnesses involved are children. There is a need of the meaning one human being’s existence, mandatory requirement for expertise in the his present and his future is connected procedure for those crimes in which to the children they are the reason for a children are victims of crimes or victims of more meaningful life
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