Arguments in favour of strengthening the rights of victim–survivors in the criminal justice process have largely been made within the framework of a human rights perspective and with a view to meeting their procedural needs and minimising their experiences of secondary victimisation. In this article, however, I ask whether the prevalent legal arrangement, whereby victim–survivors are assigned the legal status of witnesses in criminal cases, with limited if any rights, is a just arrangement. In order to answer this question, the article draws on interviews with 35 victim–survivors of sexual violence in Iceland. The interviews are presented against the backdrop of Nordic legal thinking and are interpreted in the context of Nancy Fraser’s democratic theory of justice. On the basis of the findings, I argue that assigning complainants the role of witnesses constitutes a case of misframing that results in misrecognition throughout the criminal justice process.

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“我自己案子的证人”：受害者-幸存者对冰岛刑事司法程序的看法

支持在刑事司法程序中加强受害人-幸存者权利的论点主要是在人权视角的框架内提出的，目的是满足他们的程序需求并尽量减少他们的二次受害经历。然而，在本文中，我要问的是，在刑事案件中，被害人和幸存者被赋予证人的法律地位，但权利有限，这种普遍的法律安排是否是一种公正的安排。为了回答这个问题，本文借鉴了对冰岛 35 名性暴力受害者-幸存者的采访。访谈是在北欧法律思想的背景下呈现的，并在南希弗雷泽的民主正义理论的背景下进行解释。根据调查结果，