Judicial Impact Statements


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Grief Diaries


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True stories and 25 real impact statements by loved ones searching for justice.




The Use of Victim Impact Statements in Sentencing for Sexual Offences


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Drawing on extensive research from Australia, this book examines the experiences of sexual offence victims who submit a victim impact statement. Victim impact statements are used in sentencing to outline the harm caused to victims. There has been little research on the impact statement experiences of sexual offence victims. This book fills this gap, examining the perspectives of six adult female victims and 15 justice professionals in Australia. This is supplemented by analysis of 100 sentencing remarks, revealing how courts use such statements in practice. This book examines victims’ experiences of preparing and submitting statements, justice professionals’ experiences of working with victims to submit statements, and the judicial use of impact statements in sentencing. It identifies an overarching lack of clarity around the purpose of impact statements, which affects the information that can be included and the way they can be used by the court. It consequently explore issues associated with balancing the expressive and instrumental purposes of such statements, and the challenges in communication between professionals and victims of crime. The findings highlight several issues with the operation of impact statement regimes. Based on these findings, the book makes recommendations to clarify such regimes, to improve communication between justice professionals and victims of crime, and to enhance the therapeutic goals of such statements. An accessible and compelling read, this book is essential reading for all those engaged with victimology, sentencing, and sexual violence.




Sentencing Bench Book


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This book contains commentary on three key sentencing statutes, and on sentencing law for nine offence categories.




Conference on Assessing the Effects of Legislation on the Workload of the Courts


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Includes background information on how legislation affects court workload & on historical development of judicial impact assessment as a tool by which to measure this effect. Contains the papers prepared for each of the three sessions -- policy (interbranch communications: the next generation); theory (caseloading in the balance, judicial impact statements: unpacking the discourse, judicial preferences, public choice & the rules of procedure, overcoming the competence/credibility paradox in judicial impact assessment); & applied (the impact of national legislation on State courts, observation on impact models on Federal courts).







Office of Legal Policy


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Model Rules of Professional Conduct


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The Model Rules of Professional Conduct provides an up-to-date resource for information on legal ethics. Federal, state and local courts in all jurisdictions look to the Rules for guidance in solving lawyer malpractice cases, disciplinary actions, disqualification issues, sanctions questions and much more. In this volume, black-letter Rules of Professional Conduct are followed by numbered Comments that explain each Rule's purpose and provide suggestions for its practical application. The Rules will help you identify proper conduct in a variety of given situations, review those instances where discretionary action is possible, and define the nature of the relationship between you and your clients, colleagues and the courts.




United States Attorneys' Manual


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