Prosecutors and Democracy

The first sustained, scholarly examination of the relationship between prosecutors and democracy from a cross-national, cross-disciplinary perspective.

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.