Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights - Couverture souple

Livre 31 sur 45: Critical America

Dubber, Markus Dirk

 
9780814719282: Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0814719287 ISBN 13 : 9780814719282
Editeur : New York University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Two phenomena have shaped American criminal law for the past thirty years: the war on crime and the victims' rights movement. As incapacitation has replaced rehabilitation as the dominant ideology of punishment, reflecting a shift from an identification with defendants to an identification with victims, the war on crime has victimized offenders and victims alike. What we need instead, Dubber argues, is a system which adequately recognizes both victims and defendants as persons.
Victims in the War on Crime is the first book to provide a critical analysis of the role of victims in the criminal justice system as a whole. It also breaks new ground in focusing not only on the victims of crime, but also on those of the war on victimless crime. After first offering an original critique of the American penal system in the age of the crime war, Dubber undertakes an incisive 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 us build a system of American criminal justice after the frenzy of the war on crime has died down.

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

À propos de l?auteur

Markus Dirk Dubber is Professor of Law at the University of Toronto. His many books include Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights (NYU Press, 2002).

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
New York University Press
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0814719287
ISBN 13 
9780814719282
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
399
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780814719299: Victims in the War on Crime: The Use and abuse of Victims' Rights

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0814719295 ISBN 13 :  9780814719299
Editeur : New York University Press, 2006
Couverture souple