Abstract
In a 1982 referendum, the voters of California approved Proposition 8-the first state "victim's rights" amendment-revising a number, of provisions of the California Constitution. I wrote The Wrongs of Victim's Rights in response to that referendum and the Reagan Administration's Task Force on Victims of Crime Final Report. At the time I wrote the article, I had recently been a victim of a violent rape committed by a burglar; I had had two friends murdered in separate killings; and I knew others who had had family members killed, as well as many friends who were victims of other crimes. I had also practiced law briefly as a prosecutor and then for a longer time as a defense attorney. I was concerned that Proposition 8 appeared only incidentally to be aimed at the concerns of victims; its real purpose was to serve crime control, conservative, and 'prosecutorial interests. As it turned out, Proposition 8 was apparently inadequate to serve crime control interests or to mollify victims. California voters approved yet another amendment in 1991, Proposition 115, The Crime Victims Justice Reform Act.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.63140/h2bqz25r80
Recommended Citation
Henderson, Lynne
(1999)
"Revisiting Victim's Rights,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 1999:
No.
2, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.63140/h2bqz25r80
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1999/iss2/6