The Protection of the Rights of Victims in Sexual Offense Cases
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This research article aims to (1) study the approaches to protect the rights of victims in sexual offense cases from the impacts of legal proceedings affecting such victims, (2) study whether the approaches to protect the rights of victims in sexual offense cases do not affect the accused or defendant’s ability to defend their cases, and (3) study the relationship between types of justice officials, their perspectives on legal proceedings affecting sexual offense victims, and approaches to protect victims’ rights in sexual offense cases from The legal proceedings. This research employs both quantitative and qualitative methods. The Data were collected through questionnaires from 394 justice officials and interviews with 11 key informants who are experts in the justice system. The quantitative data were analyzed using Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA), and Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA), while qualitative data were analyzed through content analysis.
Findings are as follows: The approaches to protect the rights of sexual offense victims from the impacts of legal proceedings help prevent victims from experiencing excessive psychological impacts during the legal process. This study recommends incorporating these protective approaches into the Criminal Procedure Code. These protective measures would cover all sexual offense victims, including female victims, male victims with feminine psychology, child victims, and male victims.
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