Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Notre Dame Law Review

Abstract

Serious treatment of the concept of community prosecution would seem to require deeper thinking about the goals, values, and optimal methods of a community-oriented approach than is currently apparent. This Article will attempt to explore some of these issues, using the programs that have already been developed as a basis for identifying approaches likely to prove successful as well as the pitfalls that such programs may encounter. Part I of the Article lays the foundation for this inquiry by reviewing those core elements of the traditional approach to prosecution that are most germane to a discussion of an alternative community-based approach. Part II then examines the burgeoning movement towards community prosecution, focusing in particular on the forces that appear to be driving that movement and the lessons that can be extracted from current experiments. Part m proposes a vision of community prosecution that could serve as a framework for further experimentation.

First Page

321

Volume

77

Publication Date

2002

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