Victims in the Criminal Justice System
Author : Jo-Anne M. Wemmers
Publisher : Kugler Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789062991440
Author : Jo-Anne M. Wemmers
Publisher : Kugler Publications
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 28,7 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789062991440
Author : Alison Burke
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 48,20 MB
Release : 2019
Category :
ISBN : 9781636350684
Author : Bharat Bhudan Das
Publisher : APH Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 10,1 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Law
ISBN : 9788170247975
Study of Ganjam District, Orissa, India.
Author : Leslie Sebba
Publisher :
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,41 MB
Release : 2015-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814206683
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."
Author : Joanna Shapland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 32,77 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : National Research Council
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2001-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 030917127X
Although violent crime in the United States has declined over the past five years, certain groups appear to remain at disproportionately high risk for violent victimization. In the United States, people with developmental disabilities-such as mental retardation, autism, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and severe learning disabilities may be included in this group. While the scientific evidence is scanty, a handful of studies from the United States, Canada, Australia, and Great Britain consistently find high rates of violence and abuse affecting people with these kinds of disabilities. A number of social and demographic trends are converging that may worsen the situation considerably over the next several years. The prevalence of developmental disabilities has increased in low-income populations, due to a number of factors, such as poor prenatal nutrition, lack of access to health care or better perinatal care for some fragile babies, and increases in child abuse and substance abuse during pregnancy. For example, a recent report of the California State Council on Developmental Disabilities found that during the past decade, while the state population increased by 20 percent, the number of persons with developmental disabilities in California increased by 52 percent and the population segment with mild mental retardation doubled. Because of a growing concern among parents and advocates regarding possible high rates of crime victimization among persons with developmental disabilities, Congress, through the Crime Victims with Disabilities Awareness Act of 1998, requested that the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences conduct a study to increase knowledge and information about crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities that will be useful in developing new strategies to reduce the incidence of crimes against those individuals. Crime Victims with Developmental Disabilities summarizes the workshop and addresses the following issues: (1) the nature and extent of crimes against individuals with developmental disabilities; (2) the risk factors associated with victimization of individuals with developmental disabilities; (3) the manner in which the justice system responds to crimes against individuals with disabilities; and (4) the means by which states may establish and maintain a centralized computer database on the incidence of crimes against individuals with disabilities within a state.
Author : Albin Dearing
Publisher : Springer
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 12,43 MB
Release : 2017-02-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 3319450484
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.
Author : Morton Bard
Publisher : Bruner Meisel U
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780876304150
Author : Kent Roach
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 45,94 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780802009319
A critical examination of the dramatic changes in criminal justice over the last two decades and the first full-length study of the law and politics of criminal justice in the era of the Charter and victims? rights.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 37,57 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Justice, Administration of
ISBN :