Victims and Plea Negotiations

Overlooked and Unimpressed

Victims and Plea Negotiations

Overlooked and Unimpressed

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This book explores victims' views of plea negotiations and the level of input that they desire. It draws on the empirical findings of the first in-depth study of victims and plea negotiations conducted in Australia. Over the last 50 years, the criminal justice system has seen major changes in both the role that victims play in the justice process and in how the vast majority of criminal cases are finalised. Guilty pleas have become the norm, and many of these result fromnegotiations between the prosecutor and the defence. The extent to which the victim is one of the participating parties in plea negotiations however, is a question of law and of practice. Drawing from focus groups and surveys with victims of crime, Victims and Plea Negotiations seeks to privilege victims' voices and lived experiences of plea negotiations, to present their perspectives on five options for enhanced participation in this legal process. This book appeals to academicsand students in the areas of law, criminology, sociology, victimology and legal studies, those who practice in the criminal justice system generally, those who work with victims, and policy makers.

1. Introduction

2. Victims And Plea Negotiations: Overlooked And Unimpressed
3. Informing And Consulting Victims About Plea Negotiations
4. The Opportunity For Victims To Challenge Plea Negotiation Decisions
5. Judicial Involvement In Plea Negotiations
6. Victim Veto: The Power To Stop Plea Negotiations
7. Victim Representation And Plea Negotiations
8. Victims And Plea Negotiations: Overlooked, Under Informed And Under Involved.


ISBN 978-3-030-61382-2
Artikelnummer 9783030613822
Medientyp Buch
Auflage 1st ed. 2021
Copyrightjahr 2020
Verlag Springer, Berlin
Umfang XV, 139 Seiten
Abbildungen XV, 139 p. 6 illus.
Sprache Englisch