Due Process and Victims' Rights: The New Law and Politics of Criminal Justice

by Kent Roach

In Due Process and Victims' Rights Kent Roach critically examines dramatic changes in criminal justice in the last two decades. He argues that increasing concern by courts about the rights of those accused of crime and by legislatures about the rights of crime victims and groups who are disproportionately subject to some crimes, such as women and children, has transformed debates about criminal justice. He examines recent cases in which due process...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802079016
• ISBN13: 9780802079015
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher