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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
Interpreter
Interpreter is a person who interprets during criminal proceedings, or translates documents for persons who speak other language/s than Czech, declare they do not understand Czech and that they insist on a translation of the documents in question.
