Victimization in India –An Emerging Issue

Abstract

Victim means persons who, individually or collectively, have suffered harm, including physical or mental injury, emotional suffering, economic loss or substantial impairment of their fundamental rights, through acts or omissions that are in violation of criminal laws operative within Member States, including those laws proscribing criminal abuse of power.A person may be considered a victim, under this Declaration, regardless of whether the perpetrator is identified, apprehended, prosecuted or convicted and regardless of the familial relationship between the perpetrator and the victim. The term “victim” also includes, where appropriate, the immediate family or dependants of the direct victim and persons who have suffered harm in intervening to assist victims in distress or to prevent victimization. In short victim is a person who has sufferer due to any of the reason. There are provisions of relating to compensation to the victim, but the major question is that whether it is only on paper or it works. Any person victim of crime need lot of time to recollect himself from that particular incident which take place in his life.