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Victims in the War on Crime – The Use and Abuse of Victims` Rights: Critical America

Autor Markus Dirk Dubber
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2005
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814719299
ISBN-10: 0814719295
Pagini: 400
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:New ed.
Editura: MI – New York University
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"Interesting, well-argued, and provocative. [Dubber] raises new and important issues about the role and impact of the victims’ rights movement."
—Law and Politics Book Review "Dubber's book is an outstanding achievement: original and insightful, well-written and well-informed, deeply humane and at times even passionate. It deserves to have a significant impact not only on the way criminal justice is thought about by scholars, but also on the wider public policy debate."
—Criminal Law Forum "Dubber gives some powerful examples of how the law has developed haphazardly in response to individual victims' experiences."
— The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice "Victims in the War on Crime includes a valuable review of the development of victims' rights and the war on crime and an interesting link of the two movements that have occurred in the same place and time."
—Contemporary Sociology "Dubber has written a long overdue and groundbreaking analysis of the use and abuse of victims' rights to further the aims of a police state. . . . Highly recommended."
—Choice "Dubber pulls off quite an intellectual feat. First, he offers a ruthless expose on the so-called Victim's Rights movement. Then he shows how the War on Crime, in which victims are enlisted, has little to do with real human victims in the first place. Where, he asks, are the victims in the vast array of possession offenses that are the heart of the War on Crime? He ends by conceiving what a legal system would look like if we were truly interested in victims as persons, not as pawns. This is a bold work of jurisprudence and also a practical blueprint for better policy—one of the most original books on criminal law in recent years."
—Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law, Stanford University

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