Victim Participation in the Plea Negotiation Process in canada

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• EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
  • Introduction
  • Victims' Rights and the Prosecution Of Criminal Cases
  • Plea Bargaining In Canada
  • Federal Rule 11: A Viable Legal Framework for the Regulation of Plea Bargaining?
  • Victim Participation in the Criminal Justice System: The Precedent of Victim Impact Statements in the Sentencing Process
  • Conclusions
• 1. INTRODUCTION
• 2. Victims' Rights and the Prosecution of Criminal Cases
  • 2.1 International Context
    • 2.1.1 United Nations Declaration
    • 2.1.2 European Initiatives
    • 2.1.3 Initiatives in the United States
  • 2.2 Canadian Initiatives
    • 2.2.1 Provincial and Territorial Legislation
    • 2.2.2 Federal Legislation
• 3. Bargaining in Canada
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The Judicial Response
  • 3.3 The Lack of a Formal Process for Plea Bargaining in Canada
• 4. Federal Rule 11: A Viable Legal Framework For The Regulation Of Plea Bargaining?
  • 4.1 The Legitimization of Plea Bargaining in the United States
  • 4.2 The Implementation of Federal Rule 11
  • 4.3 Federal Rule 11 and the United States Sentencing Guidelines
  • 4.4 Empirical Research: Plea Bargaining and Sentencing Guidelines in the Federal Court System of the United States
  • 4.5 Federal Rule 11: Tentative Conclusions
• 5. Victim Participation In The Criminal Justice System: The Precedent Of Victim Impact Statements In the Sentencing Process
  • 5.1 Are Victim Impact Statements a Vehicle for Revenge?
  • 5.2 The Influence of Victim Impact Statements on the Sentencing Process: The Emerging Canadian Jurisprudence
  • 5.3 Who is the Victim?
• 6. Victim Satisfaction, Victim Participation and The Empirical Research
• 7. CONCLUSIONS: FOUR MODELS OF VICTIM PARTICIPATION IN PLEA BARGAINING
  • 7.1 Model one
  • 7.2 Model Two
  • 7.3 Model Three
  • 7.4 Model Four
• APPENDIX A: The Canadian Sentencing Commission Recommendations Concerning Plea Bargaining
• APPENDIX B: State of Arizona: Victims' Bill Of Rights
• APPENDIX C: U.S. Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
• References
• Cases Sited
  • Canada
  • United States

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