Prosecutors and Democracy - A Cross-National Study

The first sustained, scholarly examination of the relationship between prosecutors and democracy from a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective.

Table des matières

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.

A propos de l'auteur

Máximo Langer is Professor of Law and Director of the Transnational Program on Criminal Justice at University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. He is an expert in comparative and international criminal justice. His work has been translated into several languages and has received awards from multiple professional associations, including the American Society of Comparative Law.David Alan Sklansky is Stanley Morrison Professor of Law at Stanford University, California, Law School and Faculty Co-Director of the Stanford Criminal Justice Center. He previously served on the law faculties at the University of California, Los Angeles and the University of California, Berkeley, and is a former federal prosecutor. He is the author of Democracy and the Police (2008).

Résumé

The first sustained, scholarly examination of the relationship between prosecutors and democracy from a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective. Written by a team of internationally distingushed contributors, this is an ideal resource for legal scholars and reformers, political philosophers, and social scientists.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: M¿mo Langer, Maximo Langer, Maximo (University of California Langer, Maximo Sklansky Langer
• Collaboration: Maximo Langer (Editeur), Máximo Langer (Editeur), Mximo Langer (Editeur), David Sklansky (Editeur), David Alan Sklansky (Editeur), Sklansky David Alan (Editeur)
• Edition: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781107187559
• ISBN: 978-1-107-18755-9
• Pages: 360
• Thèmes: Ascl Studies in Comparative La; ASCL Studies in Comparative Law; ASCL Studies in Comparative Law; Ascl Studies in Comparative La
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences politiques > Sciences politiques et formation politique; Law, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / Comparative, International Criminal Law, Political structures: democracy, comparative law, Criminal justice law