The “secondary victimization”, this idea retained throughout the Depardieu trial which doesn’t exist in French legal legislation | EUROtoday

History of a notion. The defender of rights careworn it in a research printed in March: in issues of care of ladies who’ve suffered gender -based or sexual violence, gender stereotypes keep “A gap between the needs of the victims and the responses provided”. Incredulity, sexist prejudices and the condescension that they’re usually confronted throughout authorized proceedings intensify the ethical harm suffered.

This further struggling, referred to as in legislation “secondary victimization”, was for the primary time retained by a French court docket, throughout the trial of Gérard Depardieu, in mid-May. The actor was sentenced – along with his sentence sentence and compensation for the ethical harm attributable to sexual assault – to pay 1,000 euros to every of the 2 complainants, the court docket having estimated that the phrases of his lawyer, Jérémie Assous, famous “Secondary victimization opening up right to compensation”.

The idea emerged throughout the Eighties, within the wake of victimology. “Secondary victimization is first thought of by Martin Symonds, a former American police officer who became a psychiatrist”explains Anna Glazewski, lecturer in public legislation on the University of Strasbourg.

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