THE ISSUE OF CRIME VICTIMS AT EUROPEAN LEVEL. ENSURING THE ACCESS TO LEGAL AID AND PROTECTION FOR VICTIMS OF CRIMES
THE ISSUE OF CRIME VICTIMS AT EUROPEAN LEVEL. ENSURING THE ACCESS TO LEGAL AID AND PROTECTION FOR VICTIMS OF CRIMES

Summary/Abstract: The issue of criminality plays an important part at European level, all the more so as the Covid-19 pandemic elicited extreme social reactions, having registered an increase in the cases of domestic violence, sexual abuse on children, computer crime and racist or xenophobia hate crimes. The efforts at the European level aim at guaranteeing the victims’ rights, regardless of the type of offence accomplished, but at the same time, they wish an intervention on the specific needs of the victims of certain offences. Starting from the struggling of the victims to have access to justice, the main objective is represented by the reinforcement of the framework for granting legal aid and protection to such victims, including the guarantee of resilience in crisis situations. However, such an objective cannot be reached without some awareness on behalf of the Member States, regarding the integral transposition of the instruments adopted at the European Union level, in matters of minimum standards agreed concerning the victims’ rights.

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