With justice for some : victims' rights in criminal trials /
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| Author / Creator: | Fletcher, George P. |
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| Imprint: | Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., c1995. |
| Description: | xi, 304 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1726512 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: The New Political Trial
- Ch. 1. Gays. Blaming and Understanding. Junk Food and Junk Science. Good Moves and Bad
- Ch. 2. Blacks. Simi Valley Sorrows. Against the Odds. The Federal Response. Trying Harder the Second Time. More Than Guilt or Innocence
- Ch. 3. Jews. The Trial of El Sayyid Nosair. The Trial of Lemrick Nelson. The Jury on Its Own. Rosenbaum and King
- Ch. 4. Women. Defending Rape by Blaming the Victim. The Credibility Trials of 1991-92. The Metaphysics of Consent. Conflicting Objectives. Battered Women Strike Back. Abuse, Abuse, Everywhere
- Ch. 5. The Quest for a Fair Trial. Impartiality. Tyson Fights for a Fair Trial. The Fifth Amendment. The Sixth Amendment. Grounding Justice
- Ch. 6. Victims at the Center. Reforming the Verdict. The Victim's Role from Charging to Sentencing. Plea-bargaining. The Victim at Trial. The Victim at Sentencing. Punishment as Solidarity with Victims
- Ch. 7. Justice by the People. Juries and American Justice. The Implications of the Jury System. The Integrity of the Jury. Toward an Interactive Jury
- Ch. 8. Ten Solutions. 1. Think of Every Case as a New Political Trial. 2. Divide the Verdict into Two Stages. 3. Reallocate the Victim's Power from Sentencing to Plea-bargaining. 4. Give the Victim a Role at Trial. 5. Establish Diverse Juries. 6. Abolish Changes of Venue. 7. Establish an Interactive Jury. 8. Psychiatric Experts Should Not Testify about Issues of Moral Responsibility. 9. Experts in Police-Brutality Cases Should Not Testify about Departmental Policy. 10. Toward Communitarian Punishment.