LibGuides: Prosecution Function: Books (Mostly Online)

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Books and Treatises

These books can help give you background information on the criminal law system as well as provide legal support for your paper. Most of these are available online, a few are in print in the library.

Books on Lexis and Westlaw re. Prosecutors

Criminal Law Advocacy via Lexis+
A practical how-to book for prosecutors and defense attorneys, covering pretrial procedure and trial.
Criminal Law Deskbook - Lexis - Nature of the Adversary System in Criminal Prosecutions
Concise discussion of the basic principles of criminal procedure, substantive criminal law, and criminal trial strategy and tactics.
National Security Investigations & Prosecutions - Westlaw
Prosecution and Defense of Criminal Conspiracy Cases - Lexis+
Prosecution and Defense of Forfeiture Cases - Lexis+
Prosecutorial Misconduct - LexisNexis
by Joseph F. Lawless
Prosecutorial Misconduct - Westlaw
by Bennett L. Gershman
Tool Kit for Prosecutors - Lexis+
from Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Other Books

ABA Standards for Criminal Justice Dual Jurisdiction Youth, Fourth Edition
Call Number: Akron Law Digital
Publication Date: 2024-01-30
Standards and commentary.
Can They Do That? Understanding Prosecutorial Discretion by Melba V. Pearson (Editor)
Call Number: Akron Law Digital
Publication Date: 2021-04-07
Charged : the new movement to transform American prosecution and end mass incarceration by Emily Bazelon
Call Number: Law Casebook
Publication Date: 2019
Confirmation Bias in Criminal Cases by Moa Lidén
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2023-08-16

Criminal Justice Standards for the Prosecution Function (ABA, 4th ed.)
promulgated by the ABA, this short book describes the roles, functions, duties, and limitations of prosecutors.
Handbook of issues in criminal justice reform in the United States
2022. Ebook

The Imagined Juror by Anna Offit; Annelise Riles (Foreword by)
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2022-08-02
Examines the outsized influence of jurors on prosecutorial discretion
Manifesting Justice by Valena Beety; Koa Beck (Foreword by)
Call Number: KF9756 .B44 2022
Publication Date: 2022-05-31
"examines the failures in America's criminal legal system and the reforms necessary to eliminate wrongful convictions--particularly with regards to women, the queer community, and people of color..."
Mass Incarceration Nation by Jeffrey Bellin
Call Number: Cambridge University Press Ebook
Publication Date: 2022-11-03
Overuse in the Criminal Justice System : on Criminalization, Prosecution and Imprisonment by M. Jendly van Kempen, editor
Call Number: Cambridge University Press Ebook
Publication Date: 2019
Police, Prosecutors, Courts, and the Constitution by Charles E. MacLean; James Densley
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2023-09-27
Politics of Federal Prosecution by Christina L. Boyd, Michael J. Nelson, Ian Ostrander, and Ethan D. Boldt
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780197554692
Publication Date: 2021
The Power of the Prosecutor : Gatekeepers of the Criminal Justice System by Joan E. Jacoby and Edward C. Ratledge
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2016
Progressive Prosecution: race and reform in criminal justice by Kim Taylor-Thompson (Editor); Anthony C. Thompson (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2022-05-10
U.S. Attorneys, political control, and career ambition by Banks Miller, Brett Curry
Call Number: Ebook
Publication Date: 2019
Prosecutors and Democracy: A Cross-National Study by Máximo Langer (Editor); David Alan Sklansky (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2017-10-13
Has chapters on prosecutors in the U.S. as well as chapters on prosecutors in other countries.

Cambridge Core Ebooks This link opens in a new window
Database with more ebooks on U.S. and comparative criminal law.

History of Capitol Punishment Collection

History of Capitol Punishment Collection - HeinOnline
Includes out of copyright books, trials, periodicals, articles, congressional hearings, and links to relevant external sources.

Ohiolink and ILL

Ohiolink
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Interlibrary Loan Requests
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