Full Description
Looks at how prosecution of offenders is evolving in the contemporary legal milieu.
Leading prosecution researchers throughout the United States are brought together in this book to illuminate the new environment of prosecution in America, the prosecution of troubling and emerging crime problems, prosecutorial problem-solving and community prosecution, and the future of prosecution in the twenty-first century. The contributors explore how American prosecutors are moving away from a traditional, reactive approach to the crime problem, and, instead, how they are developing creative problem-solving strategies for dealing with crime and disorder.
Contents
PART I
Background
1. Prosecution in America: A Historical and Comparative Account
John L. Worrall
PART II
The New Prosecutorial Environment
2. The State's Role in Prosecutorial Politics
Kay Levine
3. Prosecution Policy and Errors of Justice
Brian Forst
4. Have Sentencing Reforms Displaced Discretion over Sentencing from Judges to Prosecutors?
Rodney L. Engen
5. Performance Measures and Accountability
M. Elaine Nugent-Borakove
PART III
Prosecuting Troublesome and Emerging Crime Problems
6. Prosecutors and Treatment Diversion: The Brooklyn (NY) Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison Program
Steven Belenko, Hung-En Sung, Anne J. Swern, and Caroline R. Donhauser
7. Project Safe Neighborhoods and the Changing Role of the U.S. Attorney's Office
Scott H. Decker and Jack McDevitt
8. Anticipatory Prosecution in Terrorism-Related Cases
Robert Chesney
PART IV
Community Prosecution and Problem Solving
9. Evolving Strategies in 20th-Century American Prosecution
Catherine M. Coles
10. Community Prosecution: Rhetoric or Reality?
M. Elaine Nugent-Borakove and Patricia L. Fanflik
11. Prosecutors in Problem-Solving Courts
John L. Worrall
PART V
Future Challenges
12. The Future of Local Prosecution in America
Judith N. Phelan and Michael D. Schrunk
Contributors
Index
