The Impact of Victimization on Victims of Crime: The Issue of Compensation within the legal system in Bangladesh

Abstract

Everyday thousands of people are getting victimized to different kinds of offences in all over the world. Victims of crime and their family members suffer enormously as a result of the crime committed against them. The main goal of the judicial system is to ensure justice to victim of crime and providing compensation can be a way to meet this purpose. The existing legal provisions of Bangladesh are to a certain extent inadequate to retrieve the sufferings of the victims of crime as a whole. Victims endure physically, psychologically, financially and also socially as an outcome of crime. In this article, the author tries to trace agonies of the victims after being victimize. It has been suggested that much attention needs to be given to the victims of crime for their financial and material needs as the impact of crime on victims is enormous. The objective of this research is to investigate the impact of victimization on a crime victim's daily life functioning and the need for legislative framework regarding compensation to console their sufferings at least financially and to strengthen their position in society. To this end, an empirical method has been used to corroborate the statements regarding the impact of victimization mentioned in this write-up. The provisions of the draft bill prepared by the Law Commission of Bangladesh to provide compensation to the victims of crime can be taken into consideration for necessary amendments and additions complying with international standards for reforming the status of the victims of crime in our criminal justice system