Penologiese studie rakende restitusie as 'n bevel aan die slagoffer van misdaad
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Authors
Van den Berg, Christina Elizabeth
Issue Date
1996-11
Type
Thesis
Language
af
Keywords
Restitusie , Kompensasie , Oortreder , Misdaad , Straf , Penologie , Slagoffer , Restitution , Compensation , Penology , Victim , Offender , Crime , Punishment
Alternative Title
Abstract
Hierdie proefskrif is 'n poging om vanuit 'n Penologiese
perspektief 'n teoreties-prinsipiele uiteensetting te gee
betreffende restitusie aan die slagoffer van misdaad. Die doel
van hierdie studie was om deur navorsing tot insig en kennis te
kom betref f ende die vraagstuk rondom slagof fervergoeding en meer
spesifiek restitusie as slagoffervergoeding.
Die proef skrif behels 'n beskrywing van slagoffervergoeding vanaf
die vroegste tye wat as die historiese ontwikkeling van
slagoffervergoeding gesien kan word tot en met die tydsvlak
waarin die strafreg horn nou bevind. Restitusiestelsels van
Brittanje, die Verenigde State van Amerika en vyf Europese lande
is bespreek. Die Republiek van Suid Afrika beskik nie oor 'n
kompensasie of restitusiestelsel om slagoffers te vergoed nie en
daarom is slegs die status wat die slagof fer in die strafproses
beklee, bespreek.
Gedurende die bestudering van die onderskeie lande se
restitusiestelsels kon selfs binne die Europese Unie, geen
eenstemmige beleid gevind word ten opsigte van die omvang van
restitusie aan die misdaadslagoffer nie. In al die lande wat
bestudeer is was die doelstellings waarom restitusie ingestel is
egter die.slfde naamlik dat die tradisionele strafmetodes
waaronder gevangenisstraf en ondertoesigstelling gefaal het in
hul pogings om die slagoffer van misdaad te akkommodeer.
Navorser het tot die gevolgtrekking gekom dat gesien teen die
swak posisie wat die slagoffer van misdaad in Suid-Afrika beklee,
die instelling van 'n restitusiestelsel 'n dringende
noodsaaklikheid geword het. Die stelsel moet funksioneer vanuit
die ondertoesigstellingsdepartement met as ondertoesigstellingsbeamptes
as inyorderaars van restitusie wat ook as bemiddelaars
kan optree. Aanbevelings is ook gedoen vir die implimentering
van 'n sentrale slagoffervergoedingsfonds.
This desertion is an attempt to present, from a Penological perspective, a theoretical fundamental exposition regarding restitution to the victim of crime. The purpose of this study was to, through research, gain insight and knowledge with regard to the question of victim compensation and more specific restitution as victim compensation. The dissertation comprises a description of victim compensation from the earliest of times, which can be seen as the historical development of victim compensation, until the time period that criminal law finds itself in today. Restitution systems of Britain, the United States of America and five European countries are discussed. The Republic of South Africa does not possess a Compensation or restitution system to compensate victims and therefore only the status of the victim in the criminal process is discussed. During the study of different countries's restitution systems there could, not even in the European Union, agreement be found with regard to the extent of restitution to the victim of crime. In all of the countries studied, the purposes why restitution were emplaced were the same, namely that the traditional punishment process, where under imprisonment and under supervision, failed in their attempts to accommodate the victim of crime. Research came to the conclusion that, taken against the bad position that the victim of crime in South Africa holds, the emplacement of a restitution system have become a necessity. The system should function from the under supervisory department with the supervisory officials as collectors of restitution and which could also act as mediators. Recommendations are done for the implementation of a central victim compensation fund.·
This desertion is an attempt to present, from a Penological perspective, a theoretical fundamental exposition regarding restitution to the victim of crime. The purpose of this study was to, through research, gain insight and knowledge with regard to the question of victim compensation and more specific restitution as victim compensation. The dissertation comprises a description of victim compensation from the earliest of times, which can be seen as the historical development of victim compensation, until the time period that criminal law finds itself in today. Restitution systems of Britain, the United States of America and five European countries are discussed. The Republic of South Africa does not possess a Compensation or restitution system to compensate victims and therefore only the status of the victim in the criminal process is discussed. During the study of different countries's restitution systems there could, not even in the European Union, agreement be found with regard to the extent of restitution to the victim of crime. In all of the countries studied, the purposes why restitution were emplaced were the same, namely that the traditional punishment process, where under imprisonment and under supervision, failed in their attempts to accommodate the victim of crime. Research came to the conclusion that, taken against the bad position that the victim of crime in South Africa holds, the emplacement of a restitution system have become a necessity. The system should function from the under supervisory department with the supervisory officials as collectors of restitution and which could also act as mediators. Recommendations are done for the implementation of a central victim compensation fund.·
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Van den Berg, Christina Elizabeth (1996) Penologiese studie rakende restitusie as 'n bevel aan die slagoffer van misdaad, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/16249>