… and a lack of legal recognition of their role during legal proceedings negatively affecting their access to justice. In … benefits of recognising the femicide as a separate criminal offence: Because what does not exist, is also not … legal responses. Femicide needs to be seen as a separate criminal offence. This entails adopting investigative …
… rights-centred. This would allow the harmonisation of criminal and civil jurisdictions as sometimes, the civil proceedings and decisions are not coordinated with the criminal ones. For example, it is not uncommon that the …
… from physical and emotional impact (56 %), followed by criminal justice services (21 %) and lost economic output (14 … civil justice services (for divorces and child custody proceedings for example), housing aid and child protection. …
… before, during and for an appropriate time after the criminalproceedings. Despite these positive measures, drawbacks still … with the Directive is that it only protects victims of criminal offences as defined by individual Member States. …