Effectiveness of Victim Support Services: A Study on Victim Support Center in Dhaka

Akter, Mahmuda; Shakil, Aktaruzzaman

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“…In addition to the statutory services, the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) has instituted several institutional frameworks for the support of victims (Bari, 2016:195). Having determined the objectives to provide legal assistance, information, health care, and psychological counseling to the victims of crime, the first Victim Support Center (VSC) was inaugurated in 2009 at Tejgaon Police Station, which is referred to as a 'ground-breaking initiative' quoted in Akter and Shakil (2020). Moreover, the One-Stop Crisis Center (OCC), which renders legal, health care, and social services to the victims of violence, has been established in every governmental hospital at the divisional level (Mia, 2011, cited in Bari, 2016.…”

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Ensuring Victims’ Participation in the Criminal Justice of Bangladesh

Rahman

2022

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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It is seen that if the main actors in a criminal justice framework are to be identified, the most commonly identified would be the alleged, his legal representative, the prosecutor and the judge. In our current legal system, the victim appears to be one of the overlooked and disregarded parties, when in reality they should be considered a vital stakeholder in the criminal justice process to secure justice. Due to adversarial legal system in Bangladesh the burden of proof lies upon the prosecution or victim in a criminal proceeding. There is hence no comprehensive law securing rights and participation of victims in criminal justice system though few supports exist for them. In accessing the justice system, victims face numerous challenges and the plight of crime victims continues to go from bad to worse. In this background, the research relies on qualitative methods to explore their status, participation and challenges in the justice system and lastly recommends how to make the justice system victim oriented.

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Ensuring Victims’ Participation in the Criminal Justice of Bangladesh

Rahman

2022

Int. J. Criminol. Sociol.

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Effectiveness of Victim Support Services: A Study on Victim Support Center in Dhaka

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