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YOU HAVE BECOME A CRIME VICTIM: CONSEQUENCES AND REACTIONS
What are the typical changes in a victim’s behaviour possibly emerging after the crime?
Advice for victims and witnesses of crime
Four tips on how to deal
with impact of the crime
CRIME VICTIM’S RIGHTS
Right to access
professional support services
Right to information
Right to protection
against imminent danger
Right to protection of privacy
Right to be protected from secondary harm
Victim impact statement
Right to file a complaint
Cooperation with organisations providing support to victims of criminal offences
Right to interpreting and translation
Participation in criminal proceedings
Right to be heard
during criminal proceedings
Right to file a complaint against the decision to end criminal prosecution
Access to mediation
and alternative proceedings
Right to legal aid
Reimbursement of necessary expenses
Participation in criminal proceedings
Reimbursement of damages
Compensation for damages by the perpetrator
Financial support from the state
Crime victim, who has residence
in a country other than the czech republic
Right to protection
Safety
Privacy
Exclusion of contact
with the perpetrator of a criminal offence
Vulnerable victims of crime
LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Reporting the crime
Investigation of a criminal offence
Raising a criminal charge or decision not to proceed with criminal prosecution
Proceedings in a court room
Decision
Appeal
Accelerated proceedings
WHO IS WHO
Judge
Public prosecutor
Police officer
Referred as the accused,
defendant or convict
Solicitor of the perpetrator
of criminal offence
Crime victim
Representative
(of the injured in criminal proceedings)
Witness
Expert witness
Interpreter
Support victims professional
Court officer,
head of office, senior court officer
Confidant
WHO IS WHO
What participants can you encounter during criminal proceedings and what are their roles within criminal proceedings?
Judge
A professional lawyer who was appointed to serve as a judge by the President of the Czech Republic.
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Public prosecutor
A lawyer who was appointed to serve as a public prosecutor by the Minister of Justice. Public prosecutor has a number of roles within the stages of criminal proceedings, he supervises preliminary criminal proceedings, brings charges against the perpetrator of criminal offences and represents the prosecution at court in particular.
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Police officer
The police is a body whose assignment includes (among others) investigation of individual criminal offences the police may learn about, not only those that were reported to the police but also those committed criminal offences the police learns about from its own sources.
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referred as the accused, defendant
or convict
Perpetrator is the person who committed a criminal offence. They may be called differently at individual stages of criminal proceedings, yet this is still the same person.
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Solicitor of the perpetrator of criminal offence
The perpetrator of a criminal offence has the right to be represented during the criminal proceedings by a solicitor, i.e. professional lawyer.
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Crime victim
Crime victim is also referred to as the injured party under the Czech Criminal Law and they are entitled to a number of rights during the criminal proceedings.
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Representative
(representative of the injured in criminal proceedings)
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Witness
Witness is a person who had the opportunity to perceive the circumstances of the committed criminal offence, in some cases criminal offence was committed on them directly
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Expert witness
Expert witness is a person, who has not perceived the circumstances of the committed criminal offence with their own senses, but they are an expert in the specific field, on which they are to comment in relation to the criminal offence.
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Interpreter
Interpreter is a person who interprets during criminal proceedings, or translates documents for persons who speak other language/s than
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support victims Professional
Ministerstvo spravedlnosti a Ministerstvo práce a sociálních věcí podporují činnost subjektů poskytujících pomoc obětem trestných činů udělováním dotací ze státního rozpočtu.
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Court officer, head of office, senior court officer
Court officer ensures the administrative operations of the court. Head of office is a court officer with lower education level whose responsibility is to handle individual files and they also perform other tasks such as dispatching postal items, keeping transcripts from the hearings etc.
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Confidant
Crime victim has the right to be accompanied by a confidant to acts of criminal proceedings and to provide explanation.
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