Organisational Prosecutions Gary Slapper by Gary Slapper 9781351743082, 9781138732506, 1351743082, 1138732508, 2001091687 instant download after payment.

First published 2001 by Ashgate Publishing and Dartmouth Publishing CompanyThe focus of this text is an area of activity with neither a name nor a
social recognition that it exists as such. After much reading, deliberation
and discussion with officials within the court structure, lawyers and legal
academics, I settled on the title of Organisational Prosecutions because it
was the form of words which came closest to the precise subject of the
book without having to use 20 words, a colon and several commas. The
theme is the activity of the multifarious agencies, local and central
governmental departments, private companies, and organisations which
act as prosecutors in that branch of the criminal justice system which
deals with 95 per cent of all offences, the magistrates' courts.
There is a lot going on in this unlabelled process of the criminal justice
system. There are over 30 prosecuting organisations (21 are featured in
this text) which act regularly in over 400 courthouses in England and
Wales, This activity, involving very many people and a good deal of
resources, accounts for something like one-fifth of activity in the criminal
courts, yet almost no research has been conducted in this area. The only
other significant study was conducted over 20 years ago before several
major changes in the legal system that were introduced in the 1980s and
1990s.