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3 - The Democratic Accountability of Prosecutors in England and Wales and France: Independence, Discretion and Managerialism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2017

Máximo Langer
Affiliation:
University of California, Los Angeles
David Alan Sklansky
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Prosecutors and Democracy
A Cross-National Study
, pp. 40 - 75
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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