This article focuses on the self-legitimation strategies of frontline prosecutors working in a Northeastern city United States (“Belton”). The research took place self-described “progressive” prosecutor's office midst legitimacy crisis that faced across country. Belton spoke about their role and practices face this through strategy differentiation from other criminal justice actors, aimed at es...

This study aims to analyze the causes of disparity in criminal prosecution against acid attack. It is suspected that there has been a conspiracy abuse power between investigators and prosecutors, which reflects injustice procedure law. research clarifies case through mutually acknowledged norms values. Case studies also enable researchers real thing, gain better understanding what disparities p...

Most organizations and government agencies regularly become engaged in litigation with suppliers, customers, clients, employees, competitors, shareholders, prosecutors or regulatory agencies that nearly assures the need to organize, retain, find and produce business records and correspondence, emails, accounting records or other data relevant to disputed issues. This article discusses some high...

Little is known about how the dynamics of sexual abuse and disclosure are discussed in criminal court. We examined how attorneys ask child witnesses in sexual abuse cases (N = 72, 6 -16 years of age) about their prior conversations, both with suspects and with disclosure recipients. Prosecutors' questions were more open-ended than defense attorneys, but most questions asked by either attorney w...

he incidence of childhood burns secondary to abuse has been reported from low estimates of 11%1-8 to high estimates of 25%.9-11 For burned children presenting to emergency departments, the frequency of abuse or neglect is reported as 19.5%.12 Abusive burns typically occur in children younger than age six13, 14 with most victims ranging between two to four years old.2, 4, 5, 8, 9, 15, 16 Of the ...

Prior research, modeling the effects of the victim's behavior and character on prosecutors' charging decisions, has used either a dichotomous variable that reflects the presence of any risky behavior or moral character issues or an additive index that captures the number of related items in a case file. We suggest that these measures do not adequately identify the specific issues that prosecuto...