Reply to Paul Cassell: What We Know About Victim Impact Statements

Authors

Susan Bandes

Abstract

Cassell fails to offer empirical evidence that victim impact statements increase victim satisfaction with the criminal process. More important, he fails to address (and indeed conflates) the difficult issues raised by the separate question of whether the criminal sentencing hearing can or should be a forum for the healing of the friends and relatives of homicide victims.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.63140/pgeoqb3gtt

Recommended Citation

Bandes, Susan (1999) "Reply to Paul Cassell: What We Know About Victim Impact Statements," Utah Law Review: Vol. 1999: No. 2, Article 9.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.63140/pgeoqb3gtt
Available at: https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol1999/iss2/9