Correct but usually you get a local bet din (court of two or three Jewish men gathered to judge a matter) to hear the matter and render a just verdict.
It appeals so strongly to my sense of justice.
If I had received four times the value of my stolen wallet etc., it would have helped me be far less bitter and suspicious of others. Whenever someone tries to talk to me at a store any more, I wonder, are they after my wallet?
I got nothing. The perp went to prison for 2 1/2 years AFTER defrauding two banks. They didn’t care about the defrauding of me. Identity theft, the whole nine yards.