Victims in Criminal Procedure

This book is now available in paperback only . In this revised edition, Professor Beloof, Professor Cassell and victims' attorney Steven Twist update the dramatic changes that have taken place since the last edition. The field of crime-victim law is rapidly growing and evolving, continuing to prove itself the greatest revolution in criminal procedure in recent decades. This book includes the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act and resulting cases, and it discusses the recent Human Rights Watch Report that looks favorably on rights of participation. It examines expanding standing to enforce rights of participation in California and other states. It also explores sexual assault and domestic violence within the criminal process. The new third edition examines the various sources of victim law, including common law, state constitutions, statutes, and judicial and prosecutorial discretion. The book includes not only recent case law concerning crime victims' rights, but also law review articles, victim impact statements, and other interesting materials. The authors provide the perfect set of reading materials for a full course on victims law, a seminar style discussion class, or supplemental materials for a conventional criminal procedure course.

Beloof, Douglas

Cassell, Paul

Twist, Steven

Criminal Law

Carolina Academic Press

In this revised fourth edition, the authors have updated the casebook in light of dramatic changes that have taken place in crime victims rights since the last edition. This book includes substantial revisions, including a new separate chapter on crime victim privacy issues. It also examines a new wave of expansive state constitutional amendments, known collectively as Marsy's Law, that expand victims rights and enforcement procedures in states such as California, Ohio, Illinois, and others.

Politics & Social Sciences

Garvin, Meg

Social Sciences

In this revised fifth edition, the authors have updated all the chapters in the casebook in light of dramatic changes that have taken place in crime victims' rights since the last edition. This book includes recent decisions interpreting the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act and a new wave of expansive state court decisions interpreting state constitutional amendments protecting crime victims' rights. It serves as a comprehensive introduction and overview of all aspects of crime victims' rights.

Montgomery, Bill

In the 2005 edition of this outstanding casebook, authors Professor Doug Beloof, Judge Paul Cassell, and victims attorney Steven Twist review the expanding role of the crime victim in criminal procedure. Crime victims' law has been neglected in the education of law students even though it represents the single greatest "revolution" in criminal procedure in the last twenty years. The book addresses that neglect and provides lively and provocative materials about how victims fit into the contemporary criminal justice process. The casebook examines the role of the crime victim from the early stages of the criminal process (investigation and charging) through pre-trial discovery, plea bargaining, trial, and sentencing. The book includes not only recent caselaw concerning crime victims' rights, but also law review articles, victim impact statements, and other interesting materials. The authors provide the perfect set of reading materials for a full course on victims law, a seminar style discussion class, or supplemental materials for a conventional criminal procedure course. A teacher's manual will be available.

Prior to the emergence of a victims' movement in this country in the 1970s, crime victims had only limited formal rights and remedies in the modern American criminal justice system. With the active encouragement of those involved in the victims' movement and guidance supplied by a national Task Force on Victims of Crime, convened by President Reagan in 1982, federal and state authorization of crime victim rights and remedies has increased exponentially in the subsequent years. In fact, it has been estimated that there are currently tens of thousands of statutes that directly or indirectly affect crime victim rights and interests, as well as crime victim related constitutional provisions in a majority of states. The authors describe the constitutional and legislative provisions addressing the principal crime victim rights and remedies and leading judicial opinions that have interpreted them. In addition to presenting the current state of the law in this area, the text describes the status of implementation of these rights and remedies, relevant empirical research, and a sampling of pertinent policy analysis. This comprehensive portrait of the past and current status of crime victim rights and remedies in this country will inform the continued evolution of law and practice in this area. The third edition of Crime Victim Rights and Remedies continues to address the evolution of key crime victim rights (e.g., the rights to notice of and to be present and heard at criminal justice proceedings) and includes the state constitutional amendments, legislation, court decisions, and empirical studies completed since the second edition in 2010. Of particular note is an expanded federal section regarding each right and remedy in the federal Crime Victims' Rights Act, enacted in 2004, and court decisions that have interpreted the Act in its initial decade of implementation. The third edition also adds a new chapter concerning crime victim rights and remedies in the United States armed services and internationally.

Crime Victim Rights and Remedies

Tobolowsky, Peggy

Jackson, Arrick

Gaboury, Mario

Blackburn, Ashley

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Victims in Criminal Procedure

Victims in Criminal Procedure

Victims in Criminal Procedure

Victims in Criminal Procedure

Crime Victim Rights and Remedies