John L. Worrall is Professor of Criminology at the University of Texas at Dallas and the author of many books, including Crime Control in America: An Assessment of the Evidence and Criminal Procedure: From First Contact to Appeal. M. Elaine Nugent-Borakove is Director of the Office of Research and Evaluation at the American Prosecutors Research Institute.

PART I
Background

1. Prosecution in America: A Historical and Comparative Account
John L. Worrall

PART II
The New Prosecutorial Environment

2. The State's Role in Prosecutorial Politics
Kay Levine

3. Prosecution Policy and Errors of Justice
Brian Forst

4. Have Sentencing Reforms Displaced Discretion over Sentencing from Judges to Prosecutors?
Rodney L. Engen

5. Performance Measures and Accountability
M. Elaine Nugent-Borakove

PART III
Prosecuting Troublesome and Emerging Crime Problems

6. Prosecutors and Treatment Diversion: The Brooklyn (NY) Drug Treatment Alternative to Prison Program
Steven Belenko, Hung-En Sung, Anne J. Swern, and Caroline R. Donhauser

7. Project Safe Neighborhoods and the Changing Role of the U.S. Attorney's Office
Scott H. Decker and Jack McDevitt

8. Anticipatory Prosecution in Terrorism-Related Cases
Robert Chesney

PART IV
Community Prosecution and Problem Solving

9. Evolving Strategies in 20th-Century American Prosecution
Catherine M. Coles

10. Community Prosecution: Rhetoric or Reality?
M. Elaine Nugent-Borakove and Patricia L. Fanflik

11. Prosecutors in Problem-Solving Courts
John L. Worrall

PART V
Future Challenges

12. The Future of Local Prosecution in America
Judith N. Phelan and Michael D. Schrunk

Contributors
Index