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Crime and Justice, Volume 41: Prosecutors and Politics: A Comparative Perspective
University of Chicago Press Journals, 2012 Cloth: 978-0-226-00967-4 | eISBN: 978-0-226-01018-2 | Paper: 978-0-226-00970-4 Library of Congress Classification K5425.P78 2012 Dewey Decimal Classification 345.01262
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Prosecutors are powerful figures in any criminal justice system. They decide what crimes to prosecute, whom to pursue, what charges to file, whether to plea bargain, how aggressively to seek a conviction, and what sentence to demand. In the United States, citizens can challenge decisions by police, judges, and corrections officials, but courts keep their hands off the prosecutor. Curiously, in the United States and elsewhere, very little research is available that examines this powerful public role. And there is almost no work that critically compares how prosecutors function in different legal systems, from state to state or across countries. Prosecutors and Politics begins to fill that void. See other books on: Crime | Criminal Law | Justice | Justice, Administration of | Tonry, Michael See other titles from University of Chicago Press Journals |
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