The Evolving Role of the Public Prosecutor (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges and Innovations
Redaktion: Colvin, Victoria; Stenning, Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at the evolving role of prosecutors in common law and civil law systems in the 21st Century. The volume is structured around four main themes: the nature of the prosecutor's office, the role of the prosecutor in investigations, prosecutorial discretion and how it is exercised, and politicization and accountability of prosecutors.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429884948
• Artikelnr.: 56835322

Autorenporträt

Victoria Colvin is a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Wollongong. She completed her doctorate at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, in 2017. From 2001-2009, she was a prosecutor with the Criminal Justice Branch of the Attorney General of British Columbia, Canada. Philip Stenning is an Adjunct Professor in the Griffith Criminology Institute at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, a Visiting Professor in the Law School at Leeds University in the UK and an Honorary Professor in the School of Applied Human Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. His published books include Appearing for the Crown: A Legal and Historical Review of Criminal Prosecutorial Authority in Canada (1986), The Modern Prosecution Process in New Zealand (2008) and, with David Bayley, Governing the Police: Experience in Six Democracies (2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction - Philip Stenning, Victoria Colvin and Heather Douglas
Part One: The Office of the Modern Public Prosecutor
Chapter 1: Decoding Hegemony: Exploring the Discourse of a Prosecuting
Elite - Robyn Holder
Chapter 2: New Public Management, Citizens' Fears and Calls for Justice:
The Prosecutor's New Role in Italy - Cecilia Blengino
Chapter 3: Deferred Prosecution Agreements: Negotiating Punishment Before
Conviction? - Simon Bronitt
Chapter 4: The Public Prosecution Service and the Structuring of
Sentencing: The Nordic Case of Denmark - Rasmus Wandall
Part Two: The role of prosecutors in investigations
Chapter 5: The Role of the Finnish Prosecutor in Preliminary Investigations
- Efficiency or the End of Impartiality? - Julia Jansson
Chapter 6: Framing Prosecutor-Police Relations in Europe - A Concept Paper
- Philip Stenning and Julia Jansson
Chapter 7: Police prosecution and access to justice for people with
disabilities - Penelope Weller
Chapter 8: Roles of Lawyers and Investigators in Investigations of
International Crimes - Melanie O'Brien
Part Three: The nature and extent of prosecutorial discretion
Chapter 9: The Riddle of Prosecutorial Discretion - Victoria Colvin
Chapter 10: Prosecuting Domestic Violence Cases: Listening to Victims -
Heather Douglas
Chapter 11: Prosecutorial Discretion about Special Measure Use in
Australian Cases of Child Sexual Abuse - Jane Goodman-Delahunty, Natalie
Martschuk, Martine Powell and Nina Westera
Chapter 12: Community Prosecution Code Enforcement in Dallas, Texas:
Effects on Serious Crime - John Worrall, Andrew Wheeler, and Justine
Medrano
Part Four: Prosecutors, politics and accountability
Chapter 13: Prosecution and Politics in Germany: The Struggle for
Independence - Michael Jasch
Chapter 14: Prosecutorial Independence and Effectiveness of the Nigerian
Criminal Justice System - Adedeji Adekunle
Chapter 15: The Decision to Prosecute - The Accountability of Australian
Prosecutors - Kellie Toole
Chpater 16: Regulating the Prosecutorial Role in Wrongful Convictions -
Kent Roach
Conclusion - Victoria Colvin and Philip Stenning