The Power to Decide — Prosecutorial Control, Diversion and Punishment in European Criminal Justice Systems Today

Wade, Marianne

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“…In a study describing the function of the Public Prosecution within the Criminal Justice System in six European countries Wade (2006) mentioned the growing importance of the prosecution and the increasing possibilities of the prosecution to deal with criminal cases in another way than bringing them to a court, thus influencing the way the whole Criminal Justice System reacts on crime. This study was later extended to 11 European countries (Wade & Jehle 2008).…”

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Trends in the Reaction on Crime in Criminal Justice Systems in Europe in 1990–2007: A Comparison of Four European Regions

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Eijk

Decae

2011

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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Recorded crime and prison populations seem to be increasing in Europe. Some explanations for this situation can be related to changes in the reaction on crime by the Criminal Justice Systems. The information collected in the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics (ESB) provides a good opportunity to look in more detail at the changes in the various stages of the Criminal Justice Systems in more than 40 European countries over the period 1990 to 2007. In this study we look mainly at the changes over time of recorded crimes, the offender ratio, the conviction ratio and punitivity in Europe where the countries are clustered into four regions: North/West, South, Central and East Europe. It was found that the increase in the number of recorded drug crimes and a possible higher priority for violent crimes could help explain the increase in recorded crimes during the last two decades. The Criminal Justice Systems in Europe, with some differences between regions within Europe and despite not having more police resources, succeed in finding more offenders. The conviction ratio appeared to be increasing as well, mainly in Central Europe. While punitivity for Europe as a whole is stable, there are vast differences in the levels and trends between the regions.

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Trends in the Reaction on Crime in Criminal Justice Systems in Europe in 1990–2007: A Comparison of Four European Regions

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Eijk

Decae

2011

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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“…Ideally this will also ensure that sentencing reflects the extent of criminal activity. 63 This will 62 On OLAF's current inability to provide for this see Xanthaki certainly be lost when cases are not fully prosecuted but restricted only to the interests of one member state or evidence available in it. Proportionate sentencing may well, however, also be lost when prosecution takes place over many member states if such efforts are not co-ordinated and sentencing bodies made aware of convictions in other member states.…”

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A European public prosecutor: potential and pitfalls

Wade

2013

Crime Law Soc Change

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“…For an overview of the EU member states seeTak (2005); for the design of the study seeJehle (2000Jehle ( , 2006Jehle ( , 2008;Jehle and Wade (2006);Wade (2006), for the different countries seeAebi and Balcells (2008); Aubusson (2006);Blom and Smit (2006);Bulenda et al (2006);Elsner and Peters (2006);Gilliéron and Killias (2008);Hakeri (2008);Lewis (2006);Roth (2008);Tak (2003);Turkovic (2008);Zila (2006).…”

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The Public Prosecutor as Key-Player: Prosecutorial Case-Ending Decisions

Jehle

Smit

Zila

2008

Eur J Crim Policy Res

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This article presents the core issue of an 11 European countries study on the processes of diversion and prosecution with the public prosecutor as the key player. In consequence of a high workload large proportions of mass crimes are not brought before court, but are ended at earlier stages of criminal justice systems. Here the public prosecution service fulfils a selective function which differs from country to country according to its legal status and discretionary powers. Therefore the prosecutorial case-ending decisions in form of dismissal of proceedings, conditional disposals and penal orders can not be treated in isolation, but in dependence of its role within the whole criminal justice system and especially of the input from the police level.

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The Power to Decide — Prosecutorial Control, Diversion and Punishment in European Criminal Justice Systems Today

Cited by 34 publications

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Trends in the Reaction on Crime in Criminal Justice Systems in Europe in 1990–2007: A Comparison of Four European Regions

Trends in the Reaction on Crime in Criminal Justice Systems in Europe in 1990–2007: A Comparison of Four European Regions

A European public prosecutor: potential and pitfalls

The Public Prosecutor as Key-Player: Prosecutorial Case-Ending Decisions

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