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

by Markus D. Dubber

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 victims, the war on crime has victimized offenders and victims alike. What we need instead, Dubber argues, is a system which adequately recognizes both victims...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B006YIW40Q
• ISBN13: 9780814719282
• Release Date: July 2002
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"