Victim Vices, Victim Voices, and Impact Statements: On the Place of Emotion and the Role of Restorative Justice in Capital Sentencing

Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 603-626

  Arrigo, Bruce A ^a   Williams, Christopher R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT CHARLOTTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Capital trials; Critical restorative justice; Emotion; Victim impact statements

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141484456     PISSN: 00111287     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011128703252408     Document Type: Review

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