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prosecutors and democracy Focusing on the relationship between prosecutors and democracy, this volume throwslightonkeyquestionsaboutprosecutorsandtheroletheyshouldplayin liberal self-government. Internationally distinguished scholars discuss how prosecutors can strengthen democracy, how they sometimes undermine it, and whyithasprovensochallengingtoholdprosecutorsaccountablewhileinsulating themfrompolitics.Thecontributorsexplorethedifferentwayslegalsystemshave 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 betweenlawanddemocratic politics.Chaptersareinexplicit conversationwith each other, facilitating comparison and deepening the analysis. This is an important new resource for legal scholars and reformers, political philosophers, andsocialscientists. Ma´ximoLangerisProfessorofLawandDirectoroftheTransnationalProgramon Criminal Justice at UCLA School of Law. He is an expert in comparative and internationalcriminaljustice.Hisworkhasbeentranslatedintoseverallanguages and has received awards from multiple professional associations, including the AmericanSocietyofComparativeLaw. DavidAlanSklanskyisStanleyMorrisonProfessorofLawatStanfordLawSchool andFacultyCo-directoroftheStanfordCriminalJusticeCenter.Aformerfederal prosecutor,heistheauthorofDemocracyandthePolice(2008). Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Florida, on 15 Nov 2017 at 12:28:20, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316941461 ASCL STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE LAW ASCL Studies in Comparative Law is designed to broaden theoretical and practicalknowledgeoftheworld’smanylegalsystems.Withmorethansixty years’ experience, the American Society of Comparative Law have been leaders in the study and analysis of comparative law. By promoting the investigationoflegalproblemsinacomparativelight,whethertheoreticalor empirical, as essential to the advancement of legal science, they provide an essentialservicetolegalpractitionersandthoseseekingreformofthelaw.This book series will extend these aims to the publication of monographs and comparativestudiesofspecificlegalproblems. Theserieshastwogeneraleditors.MortimerSellersisRegentsProfessorof the University System of Maryland and Director of the Baltimore Center forInternationalandComparativeLaw.HeisanAssociateMemberofthe InternationalAcademyofComparativeLaw.VivianCurranisDistinguished ProfessorofLawattheUniversityofPittsburghSchoolofLaw. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Florida, on 15 Nov 2017 at 12:28:20, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316941461 Prosecutors and Democracy a cross-national study Edited by ´ MAXIMO LANGER UCLA DAVID ALAN SKLANSKY StanfordUniversity Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData names:Langer,Ma´ximo,editor.|Sklansky,DavidA.,1959–editor. title:Prosecutorsanddemocracy:across-nationalstudy/editedbyMaximo Langer,DavidAlanSklansky. description:Cambridge[UK];NewYork:CambridgeUniversityPress,2017.| Series:ASCLstudiesincomparativelaw|Includesbibliographicalreferences andindex. identifiers:lccn2017026224|isbn9781107187559(hardback) subjects:lcsh:Prosecution–Politicalaspects.|Prosecution–Decision making–Comparativestudies.|Publicprosecutors–Comparativestudies.| Criminalprocedure–Politicalasepcts.|Judicialdiscretion.|Democracy.| BISAC:LAW/Comparative. classification:lcck5425.p7732017|ddc345/.01262–dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2017026224 isbn978-1-107-18755-9Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof URLsforexternalorthird-partyInternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Florida, on 15 Nov 2017 at 12:28:20, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316941461 Contents ListofContributors pagevii Introduction byMa´ximoLangerandDavidAlanSklansky 1 1 DiscretionandAccountabilityinaDemocraticCriminalLaw byAntonyDuff 9 2 AccountingforProsecutors byDanielC.Richman 40 3 TheDemocraticAccountabilityofProsecutorsinEngland andWalesandFrance:Independence,Discretionand Managerialism byJacquelineS.Hodgson 76 4 TheFrenchProsecutorasJudge.TheCarpenter’sMistake? byMathildeCohen 109 5 GermanProsecutorsandtheRechtsstaat byShawnBoyne 138 6 TheOrganizationofProsecutorialDiscretion byWilliamH.Simon 175 7 Prosecutors,Democracy,andRace byAngelaJ.Davis 195 8 ProsecutingImmigrantsinaDemocracy byIngridV.Eagly 227 v Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Florida, on 15 Nov 2017 at 12:28:32, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316941461 vi Contents 9 BeyondToughonCrime:TowardsaBetterPoliticsof Prosecution byJonathanSimon 250 10 UnpackingtheRelationshipbetweenProsecutorsand DemocracyintheUnitedStates byDavidAlanSklansky 276 Epilogue:ProsecutorsandDemocracy–Themesand Counterthemes byMa´ximoLanger&DavidAlanSklansky 300 Index 339 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of Florida, on 15 Nov 2017 at 12:28:32, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316941461 Contributors ShawnBoyneisProfessorofLawandMosaicFacultyFellowatRobert H.McKinneySchoolofLawatIndianaUniversity. MathildeCohenisAssociateProfessorofLawandRobertD.GlassScholarat theUniversityofConnecticutSchoolofLaw. AngelaJ.DavisisProfessorofLawatWashingtonCollegeofLawatAmerican University. AntonyDuffisEmeritusProfessorofPhilosophyattheUniversityofStirling. IngridV.EaglyisProfessorofLawandFacultyDirectoroftheDavid J.EpsteinPrograminPublicInterestLawandPolicyatUCLASchool ofLaw. JacquelineS.HodgsonisProfessorofLawandDirectoroftheCriminal JusticeCentreattheUniversityofWarwickSchoolofLaw. Ma´ximoLangerisProfessorofLawatUCLASchoolofLawandDirectorof theUCLATransnationalProgramonCriminalJustice. DanielC.RichmanisPaulJ.KellnerProfessorofLawatColumbiaLaw School. JonathanSimonisAdrianA.KragenProfessorofLawandDirectorofthe CenterfortheStudyofLawandSocietyattheUniversityofCalifornia, Berkeley,SchoolofLaw. WilliamH.SimonisArthurLevittProfessorofLawatColumbiaLawSchool. DavidAlanSklanskyisStanleyMorrisonProfessorofLawatStanfordLaw SchoolandFacultyCo-directoroftheStanfordCriminalJusticeCenter. vii Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of New England, on 31 Oct 2018 at 01:37:48, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316941461 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. University of New England, on 31 Oct 2018 at 01:37:48, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316941461 Introduction Ma´ximoLangerandDavidAlanSklansky There have been times and places in which the central protagonists of criminaljustice,theofficialsmostresponsibleforthefairnessandeffectiveness ofpenaladministration,havebeenjudges.Atothertimesandinotherplaces, police officers have seemed to play that role. Today, the pivotal figures in criminal justice systems throughout much of the world appear, more and more, to be prosecutors. This is notably true in the United States, where scholars and reformers increasingly focus on prosecutors as the key to how thecriminaljusticesystemisadministered,andincreasinglyblameprosecu- torsforthesystem’sfailures.Itistrue,aswell,intheUnitedKingdomandin continentalEurope,whereprosecutorsseem–asintheUnitedStates–tobe accretingmoreandmoreauthority.ItistrueinJapanandinTaiwan,aswellas throughoutmuchofLatinAmerica. Prosecutorsdonotplaypreciselythesameroleinallofthesecountries,andin manycases,thedifferencesintheirpowersandfunctionsaresubstantial.Still, thereisastrikinglybroadtrendaroundtheglobetowardvestinggreaterdiscretion andgreaterresponsibilityinprosecutors,accusatoryofficialssituatedbetweenthe police and the courts. Despite their growing importance, prosecutors remain muchmorepoorlyunderstoodthaneitherthepoliceorthejudiciary.Notonlyis informationabouttheday-to-dayworkofprosecutorsfarmorelimitedthanisthe case for police officers orjudges, but the expectations on prosecutors, and the criteriaforevaluatingthem,aremurkyandofteninconsistent. The relationship between prosecutors and democracy is particularly unclear.Whatistheproperroleofprosecutorsinademocracy?Whatimpli- cations does a commitment to democratic government have for the powers and responsibilities of prosecutors, for the organization of prosecutorial offices,andfortheamountandthekindsofdiscretionvestedinprosecutors? What role, if any, should democratic processes play in the selection and oversight of prosecutors? What should or can prosecutors do to strengthen 1 Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. 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