Victims’ Rights in the United States
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See Also
Capital Punishment: Legal Aspects; Capital Punishment: Morality, Politics, and Policy; Criminal Justice Process; Dispute Resolution Programs; Domestic Violence; Informal Disposition; Police: Community Policing; Prosecution: History of the Public Prosecutor; Prosecution: Prosecutorial Discretion; Restorative Justice; Shaming Punishments; Victims.
Victim Assistance Program; Victims of Crime; Victims of Crime Act.
Related Case Law
Booth v. Maryland, 482 U.S. 496 (1987).
Payne v. Tennessee, 501 U.S. 808 (1991).
Further Reading (Books)
Bandes, Susan. “Empathy, Narrative, and Victim Impact Statements.” University of Chicago Law Review 63 (1996): 361_412.
“Victim Standing.” Utah Law Review no. 2 (1999): 331_348.
Beloof, Douglas Evan. “The Third Model of Criminal Process: The Victim Participation Model.” Utah Law Review no. 2 (1999): 289_330.
Victims in Criminal Procedure. Durham, N.C.: Carolina Academic Press, 1999.
Brown, Jennifer Gerarda. “The Use of Mediation to Resolve Criminal Cases: A Procedural Critique.” Emory Law Journal 43 (1994): 1247_1309.
Cassell, Paul G. “Balancing the Scales of Justice: The Case for and the Effects of Utah’s Victims’ Rights Amendment.” Utah Law Review no. 4 (1994): 1373_1457.
“Barbarians at the Gates? A Reply to the Critics of the Victims’ Rights Amendments.” Utah Law Review no. 2 (1999): 479_544.
Fletcher, George P. With Justice for Some: Victims’ Rights in Criminal Trials. New York: Addison-Wesley, 1994.
Gerwirtz, Paul. “Victims and Voyeurs at the Criminal Trial.” Northwestern University Law Review 90 (1996): 863_897.
Further Reading (Books 2)
Henderson, Lynne N. “The Wrongs of Victim’s Rights.” Stanford Law Review 37 (1985): 937_1021.
“Revisiting Victim’s Rights.” Utah Law Review no. 2 (1999): 383_442.
Karmen, Andrew J. “Who’s Against Victims’ Rights? The Nature of the Opposition to Pro-Victim Initiatives in Criminal Justice.” Saint John’s Journal of Legal Commentary 8 (1992): 157_175.
Lamborn, LeRoy L. “Victim Participation in the Criminal Justice Process: The Proposals for a Constitutional Amendment.” Wayne Law Review 34 (1987): 125_220.
Mosteller, Robert P. “Victims’ Rights and the United States Constitution: An Effort to Re-cast the Battle in Criminal Litigation.” Georgetown Law Journal 85 (1997): 1691_1715.
“Victims’ Rights and the Constitution: Moving from Guaranteeing Participatory Rights to Benefiting the Prosecution.” St. Mary’s Law Journal 29 (1998): 1053_1065.
“The Unnecessary Victims’ Rights Amendment.” Utah Law Review no. 2 (1999): 443_479.
Mosteller, Robert P., and Powell, H. Jefferson. “With Disdain for the Constitutional Craft: The Proposed Victims’ Rights Amendment.” University of North Carolina Law Review 78 (2000): 371_397.
Pizzi, William T., and Perronalter. “Crime Victims in German Courtrooms: A Comparative Perspective on American Problems.” Stanford Journal of International Law 32 (1996): 37_64.
President’s Task Force on Victims of Crime. Final Report. 1982.
Sendor, Benjamin B. “Restorative Retributism.” Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues 5 (1994): 323_363.
Shapiro, Bruce. “Victims and Vengeance: Why the Victims’ Rights Amendment Is a Bad Idea.” The Nation 10 February 1997, pp. 11_19.
Zimring, Frank E. “Populism, Democratic Government, and the Decline of Expert Authority: Some Reflections on ‘Three Strikes’ in California.” Pacific Law Journal 28 (1996): 243_256.
Further Reading (Articles)
VICTIM ADVOCATES-MAKING A DIFFERENCE, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; October 19, 2010
VICTIM RIGHTS WEEK, APRIL 22-28, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; April 9, 2007
Why Victim Impact Education Matters, American Jails; September 1, 2013; Hall, Beth Raebeck
Victim assistance, Sheriff; September 1, 1998; Moser, A N Jr
Victim advocates question death penalty reversal; Missouri Supreme Court blamed counsel for not raising murder victim’s child porn, Missouri Lawyers Media; December 7, 2009; Alyson E Raletz
Victim Submissions to Parole Boards: The Agenda for Research, Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice; May 1, 2003; Black, Matt
VICTIMS’ VOICES RESONATE WITH SOUND OF JUSTICE, The Beacon News – Aurora (IL); April 18, 1999
Career Victim Service Advocate Liam Lowney Appointed as Executive Director of the Massachusetts Office for Victim Assistance, States News Service; September 13, 2012
Victims of Juvenile Offenders: An Important Component of the Juvenile Justice Equation, Corrections Today; February 1, 2004; Seymour, Anne
Crime Victims’ Rights Week “30 Years: Restoring the Balance of Justice”, States News Service; April 8, 2014
Victim Participation in International Criminal Proceedings: Problems and Potential Solutions in Implementing an Effective and Vital Component of Justice, Texas International Law Journal; April 1, 2014; Hobbs, Harry
Recognizing Victims in the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure: Proposed Amendments in Light of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, Brigham Young University Law Review; January 1, 2005; Cassell, Paul G.
VICTIM ADVOCATES: A HELPING HAND IN TIMES OF NEED, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; April 11, 2006
Victims Put First in the Criminal Justice System, States News Service; December 10, 2013
Victim rights, Daily News (New York, NY); August 14, 2009
Crime Victims’ Rights Week ’30 Years: Restoring the Balance of Justice’, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; April 10, 2014
Victim Advocates: Rewards without Recognition, US Fed News Service, Including US State News; November 18, 2012
VICTIM’S CLOTHING CANNOT BE CITED IN MOST RAPE CASES, The Record (Bergen County, NJ); August 30, 1995; MICHELLE RUESS, Trenton Bureau
VICTIM ADVOCATES-MAKING A DIFFERENCE. States News Service; October 18, 2010
Victim Assistance stresses trauma of crime, The Irish Times; October 24, 2006; Anne Lucey
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