National Victims Of Crime Compensation System

Nowadays, increasing emphasis has been laid on the protection of human rights. Equity and humanitarian are the goals that people are eager to pursue. People need to be treated as equal and the lawful rights and interests to be protected as equal. In the process of building a harmonious society and amending the criminal law, so called criminal victims as a new vulnerable group is calling on more attention by the scholars and legislators. In the past, legislators and the judiciary caught the eyes on the accused persons, and the rights of victims have become a "forgotten corner ". While executing the judgments, the victims were not able to acquire adequate compensation because the defendants could not bear such amount of money. Therefore, many victims encountered with the hardship of life. In fact, this is not only the tragedy of such vulnerable group; it has caused negative impacts on the social order of the harmonious society. The national redress system for the criminal victims is a salvation scheme that the national government provides economic relief to the victim if the criminal could not afford to compensate. When the victims could not get compensation through civil suit collateral to criminal proceedings or civil lawsuit procedure, national redress system is the last salvation scheme that helps the victim to pull through the difficulty and heal the soul. Establishment of the national redress system is the powerful weapon to build the harmonious society and is the symbol of the improvement of the modern judicial system.