Justice for Victims of Crime - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Justice for Victims of Crime write by Albin Dearing. This book was released on 2017-02-06. Justice for Victims of Crime available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book analyses the rights of crime victims within a human rights paradigm, and describes the inconsistencies resulting from attempts to introduce the procedural rights of victims within a criminal justice system that views crime as a matter between the state and the offender, and not as one involving the victim. To remedy this problem, the book calls for abandoning the concept of crime as an infringement of a state’s criminal laws and instead reinterpreting it as a violation of human rights. The state’s right to punish the offender would then be replaced by the rights of victims to see those responsible for violating their human rights convicted and punished and by the rights of offenders to be treated as accountable agents.
SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System
SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System write by Alison Burke. This book was released on 2019. SOU-CCJ230 Introduction to the American Criminal Justice System available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice
Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice write by Maria Elander. This book was released on 2018-06-12. Figuring Victims in International Criminal Justice available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most discourses on victims in international criminal justice take the subject of victims for granted, as an identity and category existing exogenously to the judicial process. This book takes a different approach. Through a close reading of the institutional practices of one particular court, it demonstrates how court practices produce the subjectivity of the victim, a subjectivity that is profoundly of law and endogenous to the enterprise of international criminal justice. Furthermore, by situating these figurations within the larger aspirations of the court, the book shows how victims have come to constitute and represent the link between international criminal law and the enterprise of transitional justice. The book takes as its primary example the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC), or the Khmer Rouge Tribunal as it is also called. Focusing on the representation of victims in crimes against humanity, victim participation and photographic images, the book engages with a range of debates and scholarship in law, feminist theory and cultural legal theory. Furthermore, by paying attention to a broader range of institutional practices, Figuring Victims makes an innovative scholarly contribution to the debates on the roles and purposes of international criminal justice.
Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs
Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs write by Vera Bergelson. This book was released on 2009-08-18. Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Don't blame the victim" is a cornerstone maxim of Anglo-American jurisprudence, but should the law generally ignore a victim's behavior in determining a defendant's liability? Victims' Rights and Victims' Wrongs criticizes the current criminal law approach and outlines a more fair, coherent, and efficient set of rules to recognize that victims sometimes co-author their own losses or injuries. Evaluating a number of controversial cases involving euthanasia, sadomasochism, date rape, battered wives, and "innocent" aggressors, Vera Bergelson builds a theoretical foundation for reform. Her approach to comparative criminal liability takes into account the actions of both the perpetrator and the victim and offers a unitary explanation for consent, self-defense, and provocation. This innovative book supplies a practical and coherent mechanism for evaluating the impact of a victim's conduct on a perpetrator's liability in a variety of circumstances, including those that are now artificially excluded from comparative analysis.
Third Parties
Third Parties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Third Parties write by Leslie Sebba. This book was released on 2015-12-18. Third Parties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Recent years have seen a heightened awareness of the plight of victims of crime and their neglect by the traditional criminal justice system. Many jurisdictions have adopted a "Bill of Rights" for the victim; public funds have been established to compensate victims; courts have been enjoined to order offenders to make restitution; welfare agencies have developed programs to provide victims with assistance; and courts are inviting victims to testify at the sentencing hearings of their offenders. These reforms have been accompanied by a growing body of literature. What has been lacking until now is an overview that looks at their philosophical underpinnings and considers how these different proposals are conceptually related to one another and to other prevailing criminal justice doctrines and ideologies. Leslie Sebba fills this gap in Third Parties. Sebba first establishes a set of criteria by which to evaluate reforms by identifying the parameters of an optimal criminal justice system. From this perspective, he then discusses individual victim-related reforms. What emerges most clearly from Sebba's timely and encyclopedic work is the need to rethink many of the issues involved. The first book-length study of its kind, this volume is recommended reading for policy makers in the field of victim reform and is essential for scholars and students in victimology, victims and the criminal justice system, the sociology of law, criminal justice policy, and law and social policy. Leslie Sebba is professor of criminology on the faculty of law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the coauthor of "Rehabilitation as Punishment: The Treatment of Drug-Addict Offenders" and "Punishment under the "Service Work" Law: An Evaluation" and the co-editor of "Criminology in Perspective: Essays in Honor of Israel Drapkin." He is one of the founding editors of "The International Review of Victimology."
