The Evolving Role of the Public Prosecutor: Challenges and Innovations - Paperback

by Victoria Colvin (Editor), Philip Stenning (Editor)

This book looks at the evolving role of prosecutors in common law and civil law systems in the 21st Century. The volume is structured around four main themes: the nature of the prosecutor's office, the role of the prosecutor in investigations, prosecutorial discretion and how it is exercised, and politicization and accountability of prosecutors.

Author Biography

Victoria Colvin is a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Wollongong. She completed her doctorate at the TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, in 2017. From 2001-2009, she was a prosecutor with the Criminal Justice Branch of the Attorney General of British Columbia, Canada.

Philip Stenning is an Adjunct Professor in the Griffith Criminology Institute at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, a Visiting Professor in the Law School at Leeds University in the UK and an Honorary Professor in the School of Applied Human Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. His published books include Appearing for the Crown: A Legal and Historical Review of Criminal Prosecutorial Authority in Canada (1986), The Modern Prosecution Process in New Zealand (2008) and, with David Bayley, Governing the Police: Experience in Six Democracies (2016).