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Crime and Justice, Volume 41 (Paperback)
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Crime and Justice, Volume 41 (Paperback)
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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. 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. Prosecutors and Politics unpacks these
national differences and provides insight into this key area of
social control. Since 1979 the Crime and Justice series has
presented a review of the latest international research, providing
expertise to enhance the work of sociologists, psychologists,
criminal lawyers, justice scholars, and political scientists. The
series explores a full range of issues concerning crime, its
causes, and its cure.
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