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Criminal Justice Respecting Human Dignity

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Chapter 1 raises the question of how criminal law and criminal justice should be constructed to acknowledge the victim as the person whose primary rights have been violated by the offender. It was suggested that this would require a paradigm shift from criminal law protecting public interests, to criminal law protecting rights of individuals and consequently a shift of criminal justice from enforcing rights of the state to the punishment of offenders to granting secondary rights of victims to justice. It was observed that some courts—including the ECtHR, the IACtHR, and the German Constitutional Court—recognise, within defined limits, fundamental rights of victims to the prosecution, identification, conviction and punishment of offenders.

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