{"title":"The Functionalization of the Victim in the Criminal Justice System","authors":"P. Albrecht","doi":"10.1525/NCLR.1999.3.1.91","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Discussion of the victim in criminal policy is a fashion, peculiar in the sense that virtually identical contents appear again and again dressed in new clothes. Viewed from a distance, the victim has become an opalescent concept of criminal justice—opalescent because the models and conceptions of the victim in criminal justice depend, to a significant degree, on the perspective of the viewer. Thus we find:","PeriodicalId":344882,"journal":{"name":"Buffalo Criminal Law Review","volume":"152 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1999-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Buffalo Criminal Law Review","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/NCLR.1999.3.1.91","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Discussion of the victim in criminal policy is a fashion, peculiar in the sense that virtually identical contents appear again and again dressed in new clothes. Viewed from a distance, the victim has become an opalescent concept of criminal justice—opalescent because the models and conceptions of the victim in criminal justice depend, to a significant degree, on the perspective of the viewer. Thus we find: