« The Sentencing Project produces short policy document on mandatory minimums | Main | Another reminder of the long life (and possible ending) of life without parole sentences »

February 15, 2024

"Victims’ Participation in an Era of Multi-Door Criminal Justice"

The title of this post is the title of this new article now on SSRN authored by Béatrice Coscas-Williams, Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg and Michal Alberstein. Here is its abstract:

Victims’ right to participate in their cases — to hear and be heard — has gained formal recognition in both common law and continental legal cultures over the past two decades. Paradoxically, even as victims’ rights are acknowledged, their participation in the judicial process is increasingly circumscribed due to the proliferation of abbreviated and efficiency-oriented judicial procedures.  Focusing on this paradox, this Article uncovers and analyzes the level of victims’ participation in an era of convergence and transformation of legal cultures and traditions.  By exploring new ways to conceptualize the role of victims within contemporary criminal legal systems, this Article explores various and creative paths to enhance victims’ participation in an era characterized by the vanishing trial and a multi-door criminal justice system.

February 15, 2024 at 04:20 PM | Permalink

Comments

Post a comment

In the body of your email, please indicate if you are a professor, student, prosecutor, defense attorney, etc. so I can gain a sense of who is reading my blog. Thank you, DAB