03289nam a2200409Ia 4500 312530 OCoLC 20160527190728.0 120604t20122012ilu b 001 0 eng c 2012022640 9780226009674 (cloth) 022600967X (cloth) 9780226009704 (pbk.) 022600970X (pbk.) 9780226010182 (ebook) (OCoLC)783150199 PUCPR cicg K 5425 .P78 2012 345/.01262 23 Prosecutors and politics a comparative perspective edited by Michael Tonry. Chicago London The University of Chicago Press [2012] x, 366 pages 24 cm. txt n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Crime and justice 0192-3234 volume 41 82084 Local Includes bibliographical references and index. Prosecutors and politics in comparative perspective / Michael Tonry -- Japan's prosecution system / David T. Johnson -- Prosecution and prosecutors in Poland: in quest of independence / Krzysztof Krajewski -- The Dutch prosecution service / Henk van de Bunt and Jean-Louis van Gelder -- The prosecutor in Swedish law / Petter Asp -- Prosecution in Washington state / David Boerner -- Persistent localism in the prosecutor services of North Carolina / Ronald Wright. -- Prosecution in Arizona: practical problems, prosecutorial accountability, and local solutions / Mark Miller and Samantha Caplinger. 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. 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. Police, courts, and prisons are much the same in all developed countries, but prosecutors differ radically. The consequences of these differences are enormous: the United States suffers from low levels of public confidence in the criminal justice system and high levels of incarceration; in much of Western Europe, people report high confidence and support moderate crime control policies; in much of Eastern Europe, people's perceptions of the law are marked by cynicism and despair. This volume unpacks these national differences and provides insight into this key area of social control. Public prosecutors 154930 Local Public prosecutors United States. 154930 Local Justice, Administration of 118713 Local Tonry, Michael H. editor of compilation. 180313 Local Crime and justice (Chicago, Ill.) 0192-3234 v. 41. DE-576;DE-21 application/pdf http://swbplus.bsz-bw.de/bsz377739294inh.htm 20130122143452 Inhaltsverzeichnis 230381 230381 0 0 lc 0 K_5425_000000000000000__P78_2012 0 cil 124351 7 7 4 2016-05-27 Chicago Distribution Center (HEIN) 88.00 502763 0 K 5425 .P78 2012 70000000895417 2016-05-27 00:00:00 r:312530 6