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1977

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The Criminal Justice Standards And Goals Process In Virginia, Ronald J. Bacigal Jan 1977

The Criminal Justice Standards And Goals Process In Virginia, Ronald J. Bacigal

University of Richmond Law Review

Throughout its history, the criminal law has developed primarily through judicial interpretation of case law and legislative enactment of statutes. It is only in the recent past that an effort has been made to apply the planning process of standards and goals to the criminal justice system. At the national level, the impetus has come primarily from the American Bar Association (ABA) Project on Standards for Criminal Justice, which has been in existence for over ten years and has been widely publicized, and from the National Advisory Commission (NAC) on Criminal Justice Standards and Goals. In 1971, the NAC stated …


Victims' Rights Litigation: A Wave Of The Future?, Frank Carrington, Fred E. Inbau Jan 1977

Victims' Rights Litigation: A Wave Of The Future?, Frank Carrington, Fred E. Inbau

University of Richmond Law Review

American Jurisprudence 2d quite properly claims to be one of the most, if not the most, comprehensive legal encyclopedia in this country. Any attorney who has had the opportunity to peruse this work would be forced to agree. It is, therefore, an interesting and unfortunate commentary upon the state of law in our society that of the thousands of topics covered in this monumental compendium of knowledge, none deals with the victims of crime.