Victim´s right to compensation for damage caused by the offender

The bachelor thesis has been focused on an examination of the crime victim's rights listed in the legal order of the Czech Republic. In connection with the victim's rights it deals with an impact of an amendment of the Criminal Act on the status of the crime victims, when it comes to a significant strengthening of crime victims' procedural right. The victim will have a much greater opportunity to express to the crime during the criminal proceedings itself, to describe his/her own mental condition, consequences of the crime. It is expected that a victim's position in the criminal proceedings will be much stronger than before. The thesis deals with an analysis of the proving and decision-making process in the criminal proceedings on an extent of a claim for the compensation of the victim of the crime or the property damage but also of a moral injury caused by the offender. The goal is not only to highlight perceptions of the experienced situation by the crime victim, but also to refer to a restoration of disturbed interpersonal relationships among the victim and people around the crime victim. It is necessary to make the offender attempt responsibly to compensate for the consequences of the crime. The goal of the thesis is to develop a comprehensive study on an overview of crime victim's rights listed in the Criminal Code and to provide understandable instructions how to properly lead the crime victim to apply in practice the compensation for the damage from the crime offender's means.