Americans would enjoy significant cost savings and other benefits if the criminal justice system emphasized victims rights to restitution instead of punishment for offenses against the state. Focusing on victim justice would be easier to achieve with the adoption of full-scale privatization (not government contracting out) of security services, investigations, pursuit, prosecution, adjudication, and sentencing.
Lets Focus on Victim Justice, Not Criminal Justice
By Bruce L. Benson
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article
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the Fall 2014 issue of The Independent Review.
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Winter 2007/08 | The Evolution of Eminent Domain: Market Failure or an Effort to Limit Government Power and Government Failure? | |
Winter 2006/07 | The Market for Force | |
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