Victim's Rights (e-Book)
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Publisher: Inst. For Christian Economics
ISBN: 930464176
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Subtitle: The Biblical View of Civil Justice
About the Title: Jacksonville, Texas: A man robs a Holiday Inn. He is sentenced to fifty years in prison.
Boston, Massachusetts: A man is convicted of first degree murder.
If he serves Massachusetts' median average jail term for this crime, he
will be paroled in about two and a half years.
Something is wrong - radically wrong - with the criminal justice
system in the United States. Crime has been on the rise since the
mid-1960's. The courts are clogged. The jails are overflowing, yet
convicted criminals return to lives of crime upon release. The public
is increasingly contemptuous of the criminal justice system. What is
the problem?
The problem is this: there is today no agreed-upon
public standard of justice. The courts are too liberal to suit the
public, yet voters do not seem to know what the right sentence ought to
be in any given case. The public is politically paralyzed because no
one agrees on what constitutes justice. The entire criminal justice
system reflects this paralysis. Sentences swing from the appallingly
stiff to little more than a wrist slap.
Charles Colson, convicted Watergate felon, author of Born Again, and founder of the Prison Fellowship ministry, has identified the biblical solution:
"Recently I addressed the Texas legislature. . . . I told them
that the only answer to the crime problem is to take nonviolent
criminals out of our prisons and make them pay back their victims with
restitution. This is how we can solve the prison crowding problem.
The amazing thing was that afterward they came up to me one after
another and said things like, "That's a tremendous idea. Why hasn't
anyone thought of that?" I had the privilege of saying to them, "Read
Exodus 22. It is only what God said to Moses on Mount Sinai thousands
of years ago."
Victim's Rights is a detailed study of Exodus 21 and 22:
the case laws. It identifies the fundamental principle of biblical
civil justice: the obligation of the civil government to defend the
interest of the victims of crime, and the obligation of the criminal,
not the State, to pay restitution. The criminal does not owe a "debt to
society." He owes a debt to his victim.
Because modern Christians
have neglected or rejected the case laws of Exodus, they are now in
judicial bondage to humanists who see criminals as the victims and the
law-abiding public as the aggressor. "Society" is said to be at fault.
This the philosophy of environmental determinism. Result: injustice on
a wide scale. What is needed is exactly what Colson recommends: a
return to the case laws of the Bible. Victim's Rights shows what judicial changes this would require and how such a system could work today.
Author: Dr. Gary North
About the Author: Gary North received his Ph.D. in
history from the University of California, Riverside in 1972. Gary is
the author of 42 books including The War on Mel Gibson: The Media versus The Passion and Crossed Fingers: How Liberals Captured the Presbyterian Church. Gary is one of the most insightful and thought-provoking historians in modern times.
 Specifications: e-Book (PDF download), 14.7 megabytes, 316 pages
© 1990 Institute for Christian Economics
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