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Victims’ Participation in the Criminal Justice System and its Impact on Peace-Building

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Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building

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After World War II, the role of the victim in criminal proceedings became an object of interest for academics.1 In the 1960s the importance of providing protection for crime victims was highlighted. Gradually victim support programmes started to emerge. Between 1965 and 1975, during the first wave of the victims’ movements,2 special services for categories of victims such as battered children and survivors of concentration camps were established.

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  1. Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil

    Alline Pedra Jorge-Birol (lawyer and Assistant Professor)

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  1. University of Graz, Austria

    Wolfgang Benedek (Professor of International law) (Professor of International law)

  2. University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

    Christopher Daase (Professor of International Organization) (Professor of International Organization)

  3. University of Belgrade Law School, Serbia

    Vojin Dimitrijević

  4. University of Tilburg, Netherlands

    Petrus van Duyne (Professor of Empirical Penal Science) (Professor of Empirical Penal Science)

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Jorge-Birol, A.P. (2010). Victims’ Participation in the Criminal Justice System and its Impact on Peace-Building. In: Benedek, W., Daase, C., Dimitrijević, V., van Duyne, P. (eds) Transnational Terrorism, Organized Crime and Peace-Building. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230281479_17

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