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Victims and Plea NegotiationsThe Opportunity for Victims to Challenge Plea Negotiation Decisions

Victims and Plea Negotiations: The Opportunity for Victims to Challenge Plea Negotiation Decisions [Providing victims with the option to complain to a Victims of Crime Commissioner about a plea negotiation decision or the right to request an independent review of a plea negotiation decision raises issues of accountability, enforceability, fairness and transparency. This chapter considers victims’ perspectives on these two victim-focused reforms, which seek to provide some form of redress for plea negotiation decisions that are not supported by the victim. It begins by discussing the context and relevant legal provisions pertaining to complaining and reviewing prosecutorial decisions, before exploring victim perspectives on these two reforms.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Victims and Plea NegotiationsThe Opportunity for Victims to Challenge Plea Negotiation Decisions

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
ISBN
978-3-030-61382-2
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61 –77
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-61383-9_3
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Abstract

[Providing victims with the option to complain to a Victims of Crime Commissioner about a plea negotiation decision or the right to request an independent review of a plea negotiation decision raises issues of accountability, enforceability, fairness and transparency. This chapter considers victims’ perspectives on these two victim-focused reforms, which seek to provide some form of redress for plea negotiation decisions that are not supported by the victim. It begins by discussing the context and relevant legal provisions pertaining to complaining and reviewing prosecutorial decisions, before exploring victim perspectives on these two reforms.]

Published: Nov 3, 2020

Keywords: Victims; Plea negotiations; Victims of crime commissioner; Right to review; Prosecutorial decision-making

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