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Record Nr.

UNISA996582048803316

Autore

Dubber Markus Dirk

Titolo

Victims in the War on Crime : The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights / / Markus Dirk Dubber

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : New York University Press, , 2002

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2021

©2002

ISBN

0-8147-6988-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (412 p.)

Collana

Critical America

Disciplina

362.880973

Soggetti

Menschenrecht

Verbrechensopfer

Bekämpfung

Kriminalität

Victims of crimes - Legal status, laws, etc

Victims of crimes

Criminal law

Criminal justice, Administration of

Crime - Government policy

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Services & Welfare

POLITICAL SCIENCE - Public Policy - Social Security

Droit penal - États-Unis

Justice penale - Administration - États-Unis

Crimes sans victime - Politique gouvernementale - États-Unis

Criminalite - Politique gouvernementale - États-Unis

Victimes d'actes criminels - Droit - États-Unis

Victimes d'actes criminels - États-Unis

Criminal law - United States

Criminal justice, Administration of - United States

Crimes without victims - Government policy - United States

Crime - Government policy - United States

Victims of crimes - Legal status, laws, etc - United States

Victims of crimes - United States

United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Victims in the War on Crime; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The War on Victimless Crime; Waging the War on Crime; Policing Possession; State Nuisance Control; Vindicating Victims' Rights; The Legitimate Core of Victims' Rights; Vindicating Victims; The Law of Victim- and Offenderhood; Conclusion; Notes; Index; About the Author.

Sommario/riassunto

Publisher's description: 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.