Victims in the War on Crime

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. Breaking new ground in focusing not only on the victims of crime, but also on those of the war on victimless crime, Markus Dirk Dubber 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. Book jacket.

Markus Dirk Dubber is Professor of Law and Director of the Buffalo Criminal Law Center at the State University of New York, Buffalo