JUSTICE AND LEGAL CERTAINTY FOR CHILD VICTIMS
Abstract: Focus of attention
in the criminal justice system so far has always been to the perpetrator,
whereas parties related to a process of criminal justice encompasses the
perpetrator, the victim, and the community. A crime victim, in particular,
would suffer more since he/she could experience secondary victimization in the
criminal justice system.
The law concerning victim and witness protection only states the
limitation for the criminal victim to ask for compensation to criminal justice
system, either as a victim of direct criminal or a victim of abuse power done
by law enforcement officers. Child victims are treated the same way as to adult
victims, whilst they have a greater dimension of the problem and effects to be
dealt with Mechanism and procedures to be followed are ius constituendum (intended/desirable
law), as they only share expectation of indemnity, compensation, and
rehabilitation which have not been empirically tested in a real situation.
Author: Edi Setiadi
Journal Code: jpsosiologigg160042
