Ensuring social sustainability through victim redress: A comparative legal analysis of material and moral damage compensation in selected jurisdictions
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Vitalii Makhinchuk 1 * , Volodymyr Bobryk 1 , Oleksandra Karmaza 2 , Sergii Koroied 3 , Daria Koucherets 3
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1 The F.G. Burchak Scientific-Research Institute of Private Law and Entrepreneurship of the National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, UKRAINE2 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, UKRAINE3 Institution of higher education “King Danylo University”, UKRAINE* Corresponding Author

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This article analyzes the peculiarities of compensation for victims of criminal offenses in France, Great Britain, Italy and Ukraine with a view to borrowing positive foreign experience and the possibility of its further implementation into Ukrainian legislation. The research methodology integrates several approaches, including comparative-legal, doctrinal, formal-legal, monographic, systemic-structural, statistical, legal modeling, summarization. It is found that each of the countries under consideration has a special body that, in addition to the courts, considers applications for compensation for damage (material and moral) to victims of criminal offenses – FGTI in France, CICA in the UK, the Ministry of the Interior in Italy. The countries studied have fixed amounts of compensation for a particular crime: FGTI uses the “Dintilhac” nomenclature in assessment damage, which lists the types of property and non-property damage and provides their specific definition to make the most accurate calculation of the amount of compensation; in the UK, they are set out in the Tariff System; Italy’s compensation system combines fixed payments for serious crimes and reimbursement of actual treatment and care costs for victims of less serious offenses. It is substantiated that Ukraine should borrow positive foreign experience and, firstly, establish a special body to which victims of criminal offenses can directly apply for compensation. Secondly, the practice of setting compensation limits has proven to be effective, as in this case victims can count on a certain fixed amount of money that can compensate for their material and, to some extent, moral losses.

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Article Type: Review Article

EUR J SUSTAIN DEV RES, Volume 10, Issue 3, 2026, Article No: em0413

https://doi.org/10.29333/ejosdr/18723

Publication date: 01 Jul 2026

Online publication date: 06 Jun 2026

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