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DESCRIPTION:Crime victims have come to play an increasingly important role
 \nin the criminal process. One manifestation of this is the\nproliferation
  in the use of victim impact statements at sentencing\nand parole hearings
 . Across the common law world\, victims are\nallowed to submit an impact s
 tatement to a sentencing court or\nparole board. Many US states go further
  and encourage (or allow)\nvictims to recommend a specific sentence to the
  court or to express\ntheir views on the release of the offender on parole
 .\n\nResearch into the use of impact evidence at sentencing suggests\nthat
  victims can benefit from the experience and most who submit\nimpact state
 ments affirm that they would do so again. However\, few\nvictims participa
 te in impact statement regimes\, which tend to be\npoorly administered. Th
 ere is no systematic evidence that impact\nstatements make sentencing hars
 her.\n\nThere is a growing body of research that suggests that the\npartic
 ipation of victims is perceived by judges to be beneficial to\nthe sentenc
 ing process. There appears to be less or no\njustification for allowing vi
 ctim input at parole as victims seldom\npossess information relevant to th
 e parole decision.\n\nVictim input at corrections would appear to be an ex
 ample of what\nhas been termed 'punitive victim rights' and is inconsisten
 t with\nsound correctional principles or principles of fundamental\njustic
 e.\nAbout the speaker\nJulian V. Roberts is a Professor of Criminology\nin
  the Faculty of Law\, University of Oxford. He is Editor in Chief\nof the 
 European Journal of Criminology and Associate\nEditor of the Canadian Jour
 nal of Criminology and Criminal\nJustice. He has been a Visiting Scholar i
 n the Department of\nJustice Canada\, and a Visiting Professor at the Univ
 ersity of\nToronto and the Catholic University of Leuven.\nPrior to 1988\,
  Professor Roberts worked for the Department of\nJustice Canada\, the Cana
 dian Sentencing Commission and the\nUniversity of Toronto. He has authored
  approximately 150 scholarly\narticles\, book chapters and research report
 s. He has been qualified\nas an expert witness in a number of cases and ha
 s served as a\nconsultant to many government Departments in Canada and the
  Home\nOffice in the United Kingdom.\nThis lecture is generously sponsored
  by the 'Class of 1975'\nfund.\nRSVP Maria Marcheschi before 15 October\n2
 009.\nFor the record\, attendence of this conference provided 1.5\nhours o
 f continuing legal education hours to members of the Quebec\nBar\, as per 
 the Bar's mandatory professional training\nrequirements.\n
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LOCATION:Chancellor Day Hall\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 1W9\, 3644 rue Peel
SUMMARY:Listening to the Crime Victim: Assessing the Victim's Role at Sente
 ncing and Parole
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 ictims-role-sentencing-and-parole-111149
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