PROSECUTORS MAKING (BAD) LAW?

Brazilian abortion law: the opinion of judges and prosecutors.

OBJECTIVE To analyze the opinion of judges and prosecutors concerning Brazilian abortion law and situations in which the abortion should be allowed. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed with 1,493 judges and 2,614 prosecutors in Brazil between 2005 and 2006. Participants completed a structured questionnaire approaching sociodemographic characteristics, opinions about abortion law, an...

Platelet microparticles: making blood a bad humor.

Making the best of a bad situation.

I am compelled to write in response to Ms Dimon's letter Time to stand up and fight for nursing', (Letters July 22).

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 ...

Regulation in work and decision-making in the activity of public prosecutors in Santa Catarina, Brazil.

OBJECTIVE Was to characterize the relationship between regulation at work and decision processes in the activity of Prosecutors in SC. To this end, it starts with the assumption that the decision-making and regulation are complex phenomena of conduct at work, since the worker makes continuously micro and macro decisions, based on a set of regulations, influenced by contingency and personal vari...