The Victim’s Right to Compensation

Whenever the term victim is used, almost everyone is aware that someone has suffered harm or something has happened to them that is contrary to their interests. The word victim is derived from the Latin word, “victim” and the verb vincere, vaincere and has the meaning of sacrifice, suffering, damage, victimization, destruction of property, while the science which deals with its study is called victimology. The word victim essentially means the person or group that has suffered, that has been harmed as a result of various actions whether caused by man, animals, natural disasters, etc. In general, we are talking about human, animal and plant victims, and with an expression characterized the whole process of human suffering, which is called, “victimization”, which means an indefinite number of wrongdoings that endanger, annihilate, damage and threaten the basic goods and values of man. In fact, when the term victimization is used, it is thought about the ways, routes, forms of injury, its scale and intensity (Halili, 2011). Victims according to the legislation, respectively the positive provisions of Republic of North Macedonia, but also according to various legalities in the world, enjoy many rights, among which the victims have the right to compensation for damage. Damage compensation can be calculated in moral and material compensation. The moral compensation is not foreseen with positive provisions; however, it is presented as a satisfaction of the sentence which is imposed on the perpetrator or perpetrators, while the material compensation is defined with positive legal provisions. We can conclude that moral compensation is presented in cases when the victim feels in himself that the goal has been achieved and the perpetrator has been given the deserved punishment, while material compensation is realized in a certain legal procedure and the perpetrator or the state in certain cases performs compensation.