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Victims and Prison Release: A Modest Proposal
(Federal Sentencing Reporter, 2006)
The political right pushes for the strengthening of our criminal justice system by expanding victims' rights at the expense of defendant protections. The political left advocates the gradual replacement of the criminal ...
Using Criminal Punishment to Serve Both Victim and Social Needs
(Law and Contemporary Problems, 2009)
In this article we propose changing the manner in which control rights over criminal sanctions are distributed. This modest change has the potential to increase victim well-being without interfering with social needs. ...
Victim Participation in the Criminal Process
(Journal of Law and Policy, 2005)
This essay does not promote the Victims' Rights Amendment16 or advocate any other specific victims' rights proposal. 17 Rather, it suggests that, as a positive matter, victim involvement in the criminal process is becoming ...