Victims' wishes for compensation: The immaterial aspect

The Dutch legal system incorporates a number of procedures for claiming com pensation for damages resulting from crime. A number of these procedures, h owever, pay minor attention to victims' immaterial damages. This article di scusses these procedures and the opportunities they provide for obtaining c ompensation of different types of damages. A relation is established with P rocedural Justice Theory. It is argued that both procedure and outcome of a case are relevant for victims of crime, Greater attention should be paid t o an inclusion of immaterial aspects in both procedure and outcome. (C) 199 9 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.