Victims’ Rights as Trial Rites in Romanian Criminal Procedure
Victims’ Rights as Trial Rites in Romanian Criminal Procedure

Summary/Abstract: At a time when the rights of defendants and convicts have long been on the public agenda of the authorities, at European level attention has been drawn to the need for a review of the criminal policy towards victims of crime. The present study will show that the attention paid to victims in Romania is minor and the European Directive comes at a time when the national legal system seems to be less prepared for a real reform. In the place where the victim's discourse was born, one of the founding fathers of victimology being a researcher of Romanian origins (Benjamin Mendelsohn, in a 1947 study submitted to the Romanian Society of Psychiatry) the distance from European standards seems long and dissuasive.

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