With justice for some : victims' rights in criminal trials / George P. Fletcher.
1995
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With justice for some : victims' rights in criminal trials / George P. Fletcher.
Published
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1995.
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KF9763 .F58 1995
ISBN
0201622548
Description
xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)31012837
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Table of Contents
Introduction: The New Political Trial
1
Ch. 1
Gays
9
Blaming and Understanding
16
Junk Food and Junk Science
28
Good Moves and Bad
33
Ch. 2
Blacks
37
Simi Valley Sorrows
38
Against the Odds
41
The Federal Response
51
Trying Harder the Second Time
53
More Than Guilt or Innocence
61
Ch. 3
Jews
69
The Trial of El Sayyid Nosair
75
The Trial of Lemrick Nelson
86
The Jury on Its Own
98
Rosenbaum and King
103
Ch. 4
Women
107
Defending Rape by Blaming the Victim
108
The Credibility Trials of 1991-92
114
The Metaphysics of Consent
120
Conflicting Objectives
125
Battered Women Strike Back
132
Abuse, Abuse, Everywhere
140
Ch. 5
The Quest for a Fair Trial
149
Impartiality
153
Tyson Fights for a Fair Trial
155
The Fifth Amendment
158
The Sixth Amendment
167
Grounding Justice
169
Ch. 6
Victims at the Center
177
Reforming the Verdict
180
The Victim's Role from Charging to Sentencing
188
Plea-bargaining
190
The Victim at Trial
193
The Victim at Sentencing
198
Punishment as Solidarity with Victims
201
Ch. 7
Justice by the People
207
Juries and American Justice
208
The Implications of the Jury System
223
The Integrity of the Jury
228
Toward an Interactive Jury
236
Ch. 8
Ten Solutions
241
1Think of Every Case as a New Political Trial
242
2Divide the Verdict into Two Stages
245
3Reallocate the Victim's Power from Sentencing to Plea-bargaining
247
4Give the Victim a Role at Trial
248
5Establish Diverse Juries
250
6Abolish Changes of Venue
252
7Establish an Interactive Jury
253
8Psychiatric Experts Should Not Testify about Issues of Moral Responsibility
254
9Experts in Police-Brutality Cases Should Not Testify about Departmental Policy
255
10Toward Communitarian Punishment
256
Timeline
259
Notes
273
Acknowledgments
289
Index
291