Juvenile Victims in Vietnam Criminal Justice: Where to be and Where to go?

Abstract

Juvenile victims, a highly vulnerable group in criminal justice, are subject to damages caused by crime as well as the suffering caused by criminal proceedings. This paper is devoted to the clarification of the legal status of juvenile victims based on the combination of two statuses, namely the aggrieved person and minor in Vietnamese criminal justice, clarification of their legal status in Vietnamese traditional and contemporary legal culture, thereby making comparisons with the norms of international law. Accordingly, this paper indicates a great deal of attention given by the Vietnamese criminal procedure law to such group, despite several provisions that need to be further adjusted towards a new approach to minors and especially crime victims in the future.