Concerning __________, VRA provides that victims may be heard and may submit a statement during sentencing.

__________ states and the District of Columbia have authorized family courts on a statewide basis.

CASE 9.2 The criminal courts confront a double bind with regard to victims. On the one hand, victims are valued for the cases they bring to the system; their misfortunes become the raw material of the court process. On the other hand, individual victims represent a potential source of irrationality in the process. The personal and often emotional involvement of victims in the crime experience can generate particular demands for case outcomes that have little to do with the public interest. Members of the courtroom work group know that the same individual may, at different times, be:

Which approach to criminal justice emphasizes that during the preliminary hearing the judge decides if there is probably cause to hold the defendant?

Staff behaviors are very important in these types of cases.

Litigants in state courts are most often:

Much of the Bill of Rights has been made applicable to the states through the:

The Sixth Amendment provides for the right to counsel in “all criminal prosecutions,” so it is not limited to the trial itself.

What percentage of all major crimes are never reported to the police?

Which Court was responsible for the landmark decision In re Gault?