Prosecutors and Democracy (eBook, ePUB)

A Cross-National Study
Redaktion: Langer, Maximo

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316947265
• Artikelnr.: 49995530

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Máximo Langer and David Alan 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 Alan Sklansky;
Epilogue: prosecutors and democracy - themes and counterthemes Máximo
Langer and David Alan Sklansky.