- New to this Edition
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Guide to the Online Resource Centre
- Introduction
- 1. Criminal justice: the policy landscape
- 2. The police
- 3. Policing: context and practice
- 4. The prosecution process
- 5. Courts and the trial process
- 6. Justifications of punishment and questions of penal legitimacy
- 7. Sentencing
- 8. Community sentences
- 9. The prison enterprise
- 10. Victims in the criminal justice process
- 11. Youth justice
- 12. Gender and criminal justice
- 13. Racism and ethnicity in the criminal justice process
- 14. Psychology and criminal justice
- 15. Forensic science and criminal justice
- Glossary
- Name Index
- Subject Index
(p. 83) 4. The prosecution process
- Chapter:
- (p. 83) 4. The prosecution process
- Author(s):
Anthea Hucklesby
- DOI:
- 10.1093/he/9780199694969.003.0004
This chapter explores issues relating to the prosecution process. It introduces some of the main theoretical and conceptual issues with the prosecution process, and considers a number of key trends in recent criminal justice law and policy. The discussions cover the agencies involved in the prosecution process; making sense of the criminal justice process; diminishing defendants' rights; and differential treatment.
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- New to this Edition
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Guide to the Online Resource Centre
- Introduction
- 1. Criminal justice: the policy landscape
- 2. The police
- 3. Policing: context and practice
- 4. The prosecution process
- 5. Courts and the trial process
- 6. Justifications of punishment and questions of penal legitimacy
- 7. Sentencing
- 8. Community sentences
- 9. The prison enterprise
- 10. Victims in the criminal justice process
- 11. Youth justice
- 12. Gender and criminal justice
- 13. Racism and ethnicity in the criminal justice process
- 14. Psychology and criminal justice
- 15. Forensic science and criminal justice
- Glossary
- Name Index
- Subject Index
