Prosecutors and Democracy, A Cross-National Study

Front Matters......Page 1
Contents......Page 5
Contributors......Page 7
Introduction......Page 9
Discretion and Accountability in a Democratic
Criminal Law......Page 17
Accounting for Prosecutors......Page 48
The Democratic Accountability of Prosecutors in England
and Wales and France: Independence, Discretion and
Managerialism......Page 84
The French Prosecutor as Judge. The Carpenter’s
Mistake?......Page 117
German Prosecutors and the Rechtsstaat......Page 146
The Organization of Prosecutorial Discretion......Page 183
Prosecutors, Democracy, and Race......Page 203
Prosecuting Immigrants in a Democracy......Page 235
Beyond Tough on Crime: Towards a Better Politics
of Prosecution......Page 258
Unpacking the Relationship between Prosecutors
and Democracy in the United States......Page 284
Epilogue: Prosecutors and Democracy – Themes and Counterthemes......Page 308
Index......Page 347