Coping with overloaded criminal justice systems: the rise of prosecutorial power across Europe

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Creators or Attribution (Responsibility): Marianne Wade, Bruno Aubusson de Cavarlay, Jörg-Martin Jehle
Language: English
Jurisdiction(s): Germany
Publication Information: Berlin ; New York : Springer, ©2006
Publication Type (Medium): Electronic books
Material: Document, Internet resource
Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
Permalink: http://books.lawlegal.eu/coping-with-overloaded-criminal-justice-systems-the-rise-of-prosecutorial-power-across-europe/ (Stable identifier)

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1 online resource (VIII, 333 pages) : ILlustrations

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Useful for students learning an area of law, Coping with overloaded criminal justice systems: the rise of prosecutorial power across Europe is also useful for lawyers seeking to apply the law to issues arising in practice.

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Bibliographic information

Responsable Person: Jörg-Martin Jehle, Marianne Wade (eds.) ; with contributions by Bruno Aubusson de Cavarley [and others].
Publication Date: 2006
Location: Berlin
Country/State: Germany
Number of Editions: 17 editions
First edition Date: 2006
Last edition Date: 2006
General Notes: “The publication of the book was sponsored by the European Commission (AGIS Programm 2005). The research project was funded by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung”–Title page verso.
Languages: English
Library of Congress Code: KJC9538
Dewey Code: 345.405042
ISBN: 9783540339632 3540339639 3540339582 9783540339588 1280701862 9781280701863
OCLC: 262692756

Publisher Description:

Heightened crime rates across Europe have led to increased workloads for police, prosecution and courts systems and resources have not risen in line. Each country has coped with this mismatch of workload and resources in its own way and in most cases the practices and powers of each of the agencies involved have needed to be changed as a reaction to this.
This book describes the results of a six-nation study of how criminal justice agencies in England and Wales, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, and Sweden have reacted to high crime rates and punitiveness. It shows how various solutions have been found, involving diversion of cases from courts, increases in financial penalties imposed by police or prosecutors without full court hearings and the introduction in some countries of “administrative offences”.
The book reveals the fast-moving and far reaching changes that are now in process involving wide-scale changes to the way justice is being delivered throughout the EU.

Main Contents

Varying Structures and Convergent Trends in Prosecution within Europe.- The Function of Public Prosecution within the Criminal Justice System.- The Power to Decide – Prosecutorial Control, Diversion and Punishment in European Criminal Justice Systems Today.- Dealing with Various Offence Types in Different Criminal Justice Systems – Case Examples.- The Prosecution Service Function within the Criminal Justice System.- The Prosecution Service Function within the English Criminal Justice System.- The Prosecution Service Function within the French Criminal Justice System.- The Prosecution Service Function within the German Criminal Justice System.- The Prosecution Service Function within the Dutch Criminal Justice System.- The Prosecution Service Function within the Polish Criminal Justice System.- The Prosecution Service Function within the Swedish Criminal Justice System.

Coping with overloaded criminal justice systems: the rise of prosecutorial power across Europe

Coping with overloaded criminal justice systems: the rise of prosecutorial power across Europe