Victims in the War on Crime : The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights / Markus Dirk Dubber.
2002
HV6250.3.U5 D82 2002eb
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Victims in the War on Crime : The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights / Markus Dirk Dubber.
Author
Dubber, Markus Dirk, author.
ISBN
9780814769881
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814769881.001.0001 doi
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HV6250.3.U5 D82 2002eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.88/0973
Summary
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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Critical America ; ; 47
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
part I. The War on Victimless Crime
1. Waging the War on Crime
2. Policing Possession
3. State Nuisance Control
part II. Vindicating Victims' Rights
4. The Legitimate Core of Victims' Rights
5. Vindicating Victims
6. The Law of Victim- and Offenderhood
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
part I. The War on Victimless Crime
1. Waging the War on Crime
2. Policing Possession
3. State Nuisance Control
part II. Vindicating Victims' Rights
4. The Legitimate Core of Victims' Rights
5. Vindicating Victims
6. The Law of Victim- and Offenderhood
Conclusion
Notes
Index
About the Author