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

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

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Dubber, Markus Dirk,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2002]
©2002
Year of Publication:2002
Language:English
Series: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

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