Victims in the War on Crime : : The Use and Abuse of Victims' Rights / / Markus Dirk Dubber.
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...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2002 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Critical America ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
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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