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Combination of legal and criminological analysis
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Varying Structures and Convergent Trends in Prosecution within Europe
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The Prosecution Service Function within the Criminal Justice System
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About this book
Heightened crime rates across Europe have led to increased workloads for police, prosecution and courts systems and resources have not risen in line. Each country has coped with this mismatch of workload and resources in its own way and in most cases the practices and powers of each of the agencies involved have needed to be changed as a reaction to this.
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. It shows how various solutions have been found, 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".
The book reveals the fast-moving and far reaching changes that are now in process involving wide-scale changes to the way justice is being delivered throughout the EU.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Coping with Overloaded Criminal Justice Systems
Book Subtitle: The Rise of Prosecutorial Power Across Europe
Authors: Jörg-Martin Jehle, Marianne Wade
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-33963-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-33958-8Published: 07 September 2006
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-07048-8Published: 14 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-33963-2Published: 22 November 2006
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 333
Topics: Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, International Criminal Law , Criminology and Criminal Justice, general