Keywords
criminal justice system
access to justice and fair treatment
restitution
compensation
assistance
peaceful coexistence
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Abstract
This article is a result of the line of victimology of the resarch team “Estudios de Derecho Público” (acknowledged by Colciencias - “A” category). It is a reflection paper that focuses in its first part in the historical oversight of victims, to further aboard the subjects referred to the necessary change of perspective in the Colombian criminal justice system in reference to victim´s rights, in accordance with the Colombian constitution and with the international law of human rights. Finally, it refers in a specifically to those rights: access to justice and fair treatment, restitution
and compensation, assistance and peaceful coexistence.
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