Compensation
Subtitle: the victim's perspective
By: J.D.W.E. Mulder
Publisher: Wolf Legal Publsihers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Oisterwijk, The Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9789058509567
Subjects: Compensation (Law); Victims of crime; Victims of crimes
Description: Money is the answer to everything", according to Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament, (10:19). Seeing how many victims of crime try to claim financial compensation from their offenders and how the American government awarded millions of dollars to the victims of the 9/11 attacks,one might expect financial reparation to be a definitive answer in case of crime. But is it really? This book contains five chapters, which all concern the topic of victim compensation. Some chapters are primarily theoretical, others mainly empirical. Yet, above all, they are the representation of my curiosity about and fascination for the topic of victim compensation. And hopefully, by offering the victim's perspective, this book will contribute to a better understanding of how financial reparation affects those who suffer due to the intentional acts of others.
Notes: Based on the author's doctoral thesis, Tillburg University, 2013.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: How to compensate a victim's losses? An economic perspective --; title: Financial compensation for victims of crime --; title: Victim's satisfaction with compensation : how procedure matters --; title: The symbolic value of financial compensation --; title: A new economic perspective on victims of crime : homo reciprocans.