"Interesting, well-argued, and provocative. [Dubber] raises new and
important issues about the role and impact of the victimsa rights
movement."
--"Law and Politics Book Review"
"Dubber's book is an outstanding achievement: original and
insightful, well-written and well-informed, deeply humane and at
times even passionate. It deserves to have a significant impact not
only on the way criminal justice is thought about by scholars, but
also on the wider public policy debate."
--"Criminal Law Forum"
"Dubber gives some powerful examples of how the law has
developed haphazardly in response to individual victims'
experiences."
-- "The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice"
"Victims in the War on Crime includes a valuable review of the
development of victims' rights and the war on crime and an
interesting link of the two movements that have occurred in the
same place and time."
--"Contemporary Sociology"
"Dubber pulls off quite an intellectual feat. First, he offers a
ruthless expose on the so-called Victim's Rights movement. Then he
shows how the War on Crime, in which victims are enlisted, has
little to do with real human victims in the first place. Where, he
asks, are the victims in the vast array of possession offenses that
are the heart of the War on Crime? He ends by conceiving what a
legal system would look like if we were truly interested in victims
as persons, not as pawns. This is a bold work of jurisprudence and
also a practical blueprint for better policy--one of the most
original books on criminal law in recent years."
--Robert Weisberg, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law,
Stanford University
"Dubber has written a long overdue andgroundbreaking analysis of
the use and abuse of victims' rights to further the aims of a
police state. . . . Highly recommended."
--"Choice"
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
and defendants as persons.
"Victims in the War on Crime" is the first book to provide a
critical analysis of the role of victims in the criminal justice
system as a whole. It also breaks new ground in focusing not only
on the victims of crime, but also on those of the war on victimless
crime. After first offering an original critique of the American
penal system in the age of the crime war, Dubber undertakes an
incisive comparative reading of American criminal law and the law
of crime victim compensation, culminating in a wide-ranging
revision that takes victims seriously, and offenders as well.
Dubber here salvages the project of vindicating victims' rights
for its own sake, rather than as a weapon in the war against
criminals. Uncovering the legitimate core of the victims' rights
movement from underneath existing layers of bellicose rhetoric, he
demonstrates how victims' rights can help us build a system of
American criminal justice after the frenzy of the war on crime has
died down.
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