Law Development Journal
Vol 7, No 2 (2025): June 2025

The Urgency of Expanding Victim Assistance Funds for Child Victims of Crime

Arthur Hulu, Samuel (Unknown)
Kholiq, Abdul (Unknown)



Article Info

Publish Date
14 Jun 2025

Abstract

A child who is a victim of a criminal offense needs both material and immaterial recovery. Unfortunately, to date, both restitution and compensation have not been able to provide material reparation to child victims of crime. Both mechanisms are considered to have weaknesses that hinder the fulfillment of material rights for victims in order to restore their condition. The implementation of victim assistance funds as a mechanism that functions if the confiscated assets of the convicted person are not sufficient to fulfill the value of restitution. Currently, victim assistance funds can only be applied to victims of sexual violence crimes. However, currently the victim assistance fund cannot be utilized by all children who are victims of any criminal offense. Therefore, this research will discuss in depth the urgency of expanding victim assistance funds for child victims of criminal acts.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

ldj

Publisher

Subject

Humanities Law, Crime, Criminology & Criminal Justice

Description

The aims of this journal is to provide a venue for academicians, researchers and practitioners for publishing the original research articles or review articles. The focus and scope of the articles published in this journal deal with a broad range of topics, including: Criminal Law; Civil Law; ...