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Victims in the War on Crime

The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights
  • ISBN-13: 9780814719282
  • Publisher: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Markus Dirk Dubber
  • Price: AUD $193.00
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  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 06/08/2002
  • Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 399 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Crime & criminology [JKV]USA [1KBB]
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This text provides a critical analysis of the role of victims in the criminal justice system in the US as a whole. It focuses not only on the victims of crime, but also on those of the war on victimless crime. After first offering a critique of the American penal system in the age of the crime war, Dubber undertakes a comparative reading of American criminal law and the law of crime victim compensation, culminating in a wide-ranging revision that takes victims seriously, and offenders as well. Dubber here salvages the project of vindicating victims' rights for its own sake, rather than as a weapon in the war against criminals. Uncovering the legitimate core of the victims' rights movement from underneath existing layers of bellicose rhetoric, he demonstrates how victims' rights can help build up a system of American criminal justice after the frenzy of the war on crime has died down.
AcknowledgmentsIntroductionI The War on Victimless Crime1 Waging the War on Crime2 Policing Possession 3 State Nuisance ControlII Vindicating Victims' Rights4 The Legitimate Core of Victims' Rights 5 Vindicating Victims 6 The Law of Victim- and Offenderhood Conclusion NotesIndex About the Author
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