Prosecutors and democracy : a cross-national study /

Prosecutors and democracy : a cross-national study /

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Imprint:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Language:	English
Series:	ASCL studies in comparative law
Subject:	Prosecution -- Political aspects. Prosecution -- Decision making -- Comparative studies. Public prosecutors -- Comparative studies. Criminal procedure -- Political asepcts. Judicial discretion. Democracy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12597061

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Other authors / contributors:	Langer, Máximo, editor. Sklansky, David A., 1959- editor.
ISBN:	9781316941461 (ebook) 9781107187559 (hardback) 9781316638149 (paperback)
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: 9781107187559

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Summary:	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.
Item Description:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Oct 2017).
Physical Description:	1 online resource (vii, 352 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:	9781316941461 9781107187559 9781316638149