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. The book details how various solutions have been adopted, 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".
Author(s): Jorg-Martin Jehle, Marianne Wade,
Edition: 1
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 334
Cover......Page 1
Coping with Overloaded Criminal Justice Systems......Page 2
ISBN 3540339582......Page 4
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Part I
Varying Structures and Convergent Trends
in Prosecution within Europe......Page 9
The Function of Public Prosecution within the
Criminal Justice System......Page 10
The Power to Decide – Prosecutorial Control,
Diversion and Punishment in European Criminal
Justice Systems Today......Page 33
Dealing with Various Offence Types in Different
Criminal Justice Systems – Case Examples......Page 133
Part II
The Prosecution Service Function within
the Criminal Justice System......Page 155
The Prosecution Service Function within the
English Criminal Justice System......Page 156
The Prosecution Service Function within the
French Criminal Justice System......Page 190
The Prosecution Service Function within the
German Criminal Justice System......Page 211
The Prosecution Service Function within the
Dutch Criminal Justice System......Page 241
The Prosecution Service Function within the
Polish Criminal Justice System......Page 261
The Prosecution Service Function within the
Swedish Criminal Justice System......Page 289
Part III
Appendix......Page 316
Contents of the Questionnaire......Page 317
List of Authors......Page 332
