PROSECUTOR QUALIFICATION IMPROVEMENT – PROSECUTION OF EFFECTIVE PROSECUTOR’S ACTIVITIES

Pain relief, prescription drugs, and prosecution: a four-state survey of chief prosecutors.

Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 31 (2003): 75–100. © 2003 by the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics. he experience of having to suffer debilitating pain is far too common in the United States, and many patients continue to be inadequately treated by their doctors. Although many physicians freely admit that their pain management practices may have been somewhat lacking, many more expr...

SOME REFLECTIONS ON THE ECONOMICS OF PROSECUTORS: MANDATORY v SELECTIVE PROSECUTION∗

Mandatory prosecution is inefficient according to legal economists. We argue that when prosecutors are fairly insulated from their performance or are highly risk averse mandatory prosecution is better than selective prosecution. This result has important implications for comparative law since mandatory prosecution generally prevails in civil law jurisdictions whereas selective prosecution is ty...

The principle of mandatory criminal prosecution and the independence of public prosecutors in the Italian criminal justice system

The purpose of this article is to explain the reasons for adopting, in Italy, the principle of mandatory criminal prosecution. This rule is closely connected to the role and functions of Italian public prosecutors. The supreme guarantee deriving from the rule governing the mandatory status of criminal prosecution is to safeguard the equal treatment of all citizens before criminal law. This is p...

The Prudent Prosecutor

Rewarding Prosecutors for Performance

Prosecutorial discretion is a problem that most scholars attack from the outside. What forces should constrain or guide prosecutors to pursue the right numbers and types of cases, rank them well, treat them equally, behave ethically, invest appropriate effort, and seek fitting punishments? Most scholars favor external institutional solutions, such as ex ante legislation or ex post judicial and ...