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Prosecutors and democracy : a cross-national study / edited by Maximo Langer, David Alan Sklansky.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ASCL studies in comparative law
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prosecution--Political aspects.
- Prosecution.
- Prosecution--Decision making--Comparative studies.
- Public prosecutors--Comparative studies.
- Public prosecutors.
- Criminal procedure--Political asepcts.
- Criminal procedure.
- Judicial discretion.
- Democracy.
- Prosecution--Decision making.
- Genre:
- Comparative studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Focusing on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throws light on key questions about prosecutors and the role they should play in liberal self-government. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they sometimes undermine it, and why it has proven so challenging to hold prosecutors accountable while insulating them from politics. The contributors explore the different ways legal systems have addressed that challenge in the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. Contrasting those strategies allows an assessment of their relative strengths - and a richer understanding of the contested connections between law and democratic politics. Chapters are in explicit conversation with each other, facilitating comparison and deepening the analysis. This is an important new resource for legal scholars and reformers, political philosophers, and social scientists.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Introduction Maximo Langer and David Sklansky; 1. Discretion and accountability in a democratic criminal law Antony Duff; 2. Accounting for prosecutors Daniel C. Richman; 3. The democratic accountability of prosecutors in England and Wales and France: independence, discretion and managerialism Jacqueline Hodgson; 4. The French prosecutor as judge. The carpenter's mistake? Mathilde Cohen; 5. German prosecutors and the Rechtsstaat Shawn Boyne; 6. The organization of prosecutorial discretion William J. Simon; 7. Prosecutors, democracy, and race Angela J. Davis; 8. Prosecuting immigrants in a democracy Ingrid V. Eagly; 9. The better politics of prosecution Jonathan Simon; 10. Unpacking the relationship between prosecutors and democracy in the United States David Sklansky; Epilogue: prosecutors and democracy - themes and counterthemes Maximo Langer and David Sklansky.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781316941461
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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