Victim Participation Rights Variation Across Criminal Justice Systems /

• Main Author: Braun, Kerstin (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology
• Subjects: Victimology.; Human rights.; Criminology.; Trials.; Criminal law.; Social justice.; Human Rights and Crime .; Juries and Criminal Trials.; Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law.; Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights.

This book traces victims' active participatory rights through different procedural stages in adversarial and non-adversarial justice systems, in an attempt to identify what role victims play during criminal proceedings in the domestic setting. Braun analyses countries with different legal tradi...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Victim Participation in Criminal Procedure: An Introduction
• 2. Victim Participation: A Historic Overview
• 3. Victim Perspectives and Criminal Justice
• 4. Victim Participation: Investigation and Pre-trial Decisions
• 5. Victim Participation: The Trial and Sentencing Process
• 6. Victim Participation Post Trial: Appeals and Early Release
• 7. Limits of Victim Participation in Adversarial and Non-adversarial Systems-a Case Study of Germany and Australia
• 8. Victim Participation: An Enhanced Focus on Legal Representation For Victims
• 9. Victim Participation: Review and Conclusions. .