The Prosecutor in Transnational Perspective

Abstract

Preface Section I Section Introduction: The Prosecutor as Policymaker, Case-Manager, and Investigator Erik Luna and Marianne Wade Prosecution Guidelines in the United States Ellen S. Podgor Procedural Justice, Collateral Consequences and the Adjudication of Misdemeanors in the United States John D. King Is the Journey from the In-Box to the Out-Box a Straight Line? The Drive for Efficiency and the Prosecution of Low-Level Criminality in Germany Shawn Boyne The Interaction and Relationship Between Prosecutors and Police Officers in the United States, and How This Affects Police Reform Efforts David A. Harris Prosecutorial Control of Investigations in Europe: A Call for Judicial Oversight Stefan Braum Section II Section Introduction: Plea Bargaining and Other Consensual Procedures Erik Luna and Marianne Wade The Prosecutor's Role: Plea Bargaining and Evidentiary Exclusion Craig Bradley Prosecutors and Bargaining in Weak Cases: A Comparative View Jenia Iontcheva Turner Guilty Pleas and the Changing Role of the Prosecutor in French Criminal Jacqueline Hodgson The Dutch Prosecutor: A Prosecuting and Sentencing Officer Peter J.P. Tak The Penal Order: Prosecutorial Sentencing as a Model for Comparative Criminal Reform? Stephen C. Thaman Section III Section Introduction: Adversarial and Inquisitorial Systems - Distinctive Aspects and Convergent Trends Erik Luna and Marianne Wade A Perfect Storm: Prosecutorial Discretion in the United States William T. Pizzi American Prosecutors' Powers and Obligations in the Era of Plea Bargaining Darryl K. Brown The Evolving Role of the English Crown Prosecution Service Chris Lewis Prosecutorial Powers and Policymaking in Sweden and the Other Nordic Countries Josef Zila The Italian Public Prosecutor: An Inquisitorial Figure in Adversarial Proceedings? Michele Caianiello Obsolete Procedural Actors? Polish Prosecutors and Their Evidence Gathering Duty Before and During Trial in an Inquisitorial Environment Antoni Bojanczyk Section IV Section Introduction: Prosecution in Exceptional Contexts and Non-Domestic Fora Erik Luna and Marianne Wade Prosecuting Terrorism: Models for Confronting Organized Violence Wayne McCormack Prosecuting in the Military Timothy C. MacDonnell Obtaining Guilty Pleas for International Crimes: Prosecutorial Difficulties Nancy Amoury Combs Murder by Any Other Name: Genocide and the Prosecutorial Challenges John Winterdyk Section 5 Section Introduction: Overview and Outlook - Toward Comparative Prosecution Studies Erik Luna and Marianne Wade A Judge by Another Name? Comparative Perspectives on the Role of the Public Prosecutor Thomas Weigend Reporting for Duty: The Universal Prosecutorial Accountability Puzzle and an Experimental Transparency Alternative Marc L. Miller and Ronald F. Wright Failures of the Prosecutor's Duty to Do Justice in Extraordinary and Ordinary Miscarriages of Robert P. Mosteller Looking Back and at the Challenges Ahead Erik Luna and Marianne Wade