Coping with Overloaded Criminal Justice Systems: The Rise of Prosecutorial Power Across Europe

by Marianne Wade and Jörg-Martin Jehle

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3642070485
• ISBN13: 9783642070488
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 333 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"