Prosecutors and Democracy
A Cross-National Study
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Part of ASCL Studies in Comparative Law
- Editors:
- Máximo Langer, University of California, Los Angeles
- David Alan Sklansky, Stanford University, California
- Date Published: October 2017
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- isbn: 9781316953495
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Focusing on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throws light on key questions about prosecutors and the role they should play in liberal self-government. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they sometimes undermine it, and why it has proven so challenging to hold prosecutors accountable while insulating them from politics. The contributors explore the different ways legal systems have addressed that challenge in the United States, the United Kingdom, and continental Europe. Contrasting those strategies allows an assessment of their relative strengths - and a richer understanding of the contested connections between law and democratic politics. Chapters are in explicit conversation with each other, facilitating comparison and deepening the analysis. This is an important new resource for legal scholars and reformers, political philosophers, and social scientists.
Read more- Focuses on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, shedding light on a critical area of study that has received little sustained examination before
- Takes a cross-national perspective, examining and comparing prosecutors in different nations, facilitating a deeper and more revealing analysis for students and scholars of the field
- Employs a range of different methodologies throughout the book, providing a detailed investigation of prosecutors and democracy from varied perspectives, entering into explicit conversation with each other over the twelve chapters and drawing on a broad command of multiple relevant literatures
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- Date Published: October 2017
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781316953495
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
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.
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