Public prosecutors in criminal investigations : a comparative law study / Stefano Ruggeri -- Selecting charges / Matt Barno and Mona Lynch -- Testing charges / Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. -- Prosecutors and plea bargaining / Brian D. Johnson and Raquel Hernandez -- Disclosure, security, technology : challenges in pre-trial access to evidence / Darryl K. Brown -- Prosecutors and trials / Alexander Heinze -- Prosecutors and sentencing / Nora V. Demleitner -- Prosecutors post-conviction / Brandon l. Garrett -- Accountability courts and diversion programs / Palmon Shomade -- Hiring and learning strategies in prosecution services / Rasmus H. Wandall -- The necessity of performance measures for prosecutors / Lauren-Brooke Eisen and Miriam Aroni Krinsky -- Specialized units and vertical prosecution approaches / Cassia Spohn -- Courtroom workgroups : "a prosecutor, a defense attorney, and a judge walk into a bar ..." / Milton Heumann, Rick Kavin, and Anu Chugh -- Law enforcement organization relationships with prosecutors / Daniel C. Richman -- Bar authorities and prosecutors / Bruce A. Green -- Prosecutors and their legislatures, legislatures and their prosecutors / Russell M. Gold -- The relationship between prosecutors and defenders / Ellen Yaroshefsky -- Victims and prosecutors / Amanda Konradi and Tirza Jo Ochrach-Konradi -- Prosecutors and voters / Carissa Byrne Hessick -- Community prosecution and building trust across a racial divide / Ronald F. Wright -- Prosecutors and the immigration enforcement system in the United States / Jennifer Chacon -- Prosecuting race and adolescence / Kristin Henning -- Corporate criminal law unbounded / Miriam H. Baer -- Law enforcement agent defendants and prosecutors / Stephen Rushin -- Prosecuting misdemeanors / Jenny Roberts -- Prosecutors and national security / Kent Roach -- Shrinking the accountability deficit in capital charging / Sherod Thaxton.
Summary:
"This volume brings together the work of leading international scholars across criminology, sociology, political science, and law - along with contributions from reform-minded practitioners - to examine a variety of issues in prosecutorial performance and the institutional structures that frame their behavior. The power of the modern prosecutor arises from several features of the criminal justice landscape: widespread use of law and order political rhetoric; legislatures' embrace of extreme sentencing ranges to respond to voter concerns; and the uncertain or limited accountability of prosecutors to other units of government, the electorate, the bar, or other political and professional constituencies. The convergence of these trends has transformed prosecution into an indispensable field of study. The Handbook connects the dots among existing theoretical and empirical research related to prosecutors. Major sections of the volume cover (1) prosecutor performance during distinct phases of a criminal case, (2) the features of the prosecutor's environment, both inside the office and external to the office, that influence the choices of individual prosecutors and office leaders, and (3) prosecutorial priorities when dealing with specialized types of crimes, victims, and defendants. Taken together, the chapters in this volume identify the founding texts, discuss leading theoretical and methodological approaches, explain the scope of unresolved issues, and preview where this field is headed. The volume provides a bottom-up view of an important new scholarly field. It offers an indispensable starting point for newcomers and a compelling synthesis for specialists and practitioners"-- Provided by publisher.
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