The prosecutor in transnational perspective /
"The American prosecutor plays a powerful role in the judicial system, wielding the authority to accept or decline a case, choose which crimes to allege, and decide the number of counts to charge. These choices, among others, are often made with little supervision or institutional oversight. Th...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section I. The prosecutor as policy maker, case manager, and investigator
- Prosecution guidelines in the United States / Ellen S. Podgor
- Procedural justice, collateral consequences, and the adjudication of misdemeanors in the United States / John D. King
- Is the journey from the in-box to the out-box a straight line? : the drive for efficiency and the prosecution of low-level criminality in Germany / Shawn Boyne
- The interaction and relationship between prosecutors and police officers in the United States, and how this affects police reform efforts / David A. Harris
- Prosecutorial control of investigations in Europe : a call for judicial oversight / Stefan Braum
- Section II. Plea bargaining and other "consensual procedures"
- The prosecutor's role : plea bargaining and evidentiary exclusion / Craig Bradley
- Prosecutors and bargaining in weak cases : a comparative view / Jenia Iontcheva Turner
- Guilty pleas and the changing role of the prosecutor in French criminal justice / Jacqueline Hodgson
- The Dutch prosecutor : a prosecuting and sentencing officer / Peter J.P. Tak
- The penal order : prosecutorial sentencing as a model for comparative criminal justice reform? / Stephen C. Thaman
- Section III. Adversarial and inquisitorial systems : distinctive aspects and convergent trends
- A perfect storm : prosecutorial discretion in the United States / William T. Pizzi
- American prosecutors' powers and obligations in the era of plea bargaining / Darryl K. Brown
- The evolving role of the English Crown Prosecution Service / Chris Lewis
- Prosecutorial powers and policymaking in Sweden and the other Nordic countries / Josef Zila
- The Italian public prosecutor : an inquisitorial figure in adversarial proceedings? / Michele Caianiello
- Obsolete procedural actors? : Polish prosecutors and their evidence gathering duty before and during trial in an inquisitorial environment / Antoni Bojańczyk
- Section IV. Prosecution in exceptional contexts and nondomestic fora
- Prosecuting terrorism : models for confronting organized violence / Wayne McCormack
- Prosecuting in the military / Timothy C. MacDonnell
- Obtaining guilty pleas for international crimes : prosecutorial difficulties / Nancy Amoury Combs
- Murder by any other name : genocide and the prosecutorial challenges / John Winterdyk
- Section V. Overview and outlook : toward comparative prosecution studies
- A judge by another name? : comparative perspectives on the role of the public prosecutor / Thomas Weigend
- Reporting for duty : the universal prosecutorial accountability puzzle and an experimental transparency alternative / Marc L. Miller and Ronald F. Wright
- Failures of the prosecutor's duty to "do justice" in extraordinary and ordinary miscarriages of justice / Robert P. Mosteller
- Looking back and at the challenges ahead / Erik Luna and Marianne L. Wade.