Consensual Mechanisms in Criminal Proceedings - Integrative and Comparative Perspective

This book deals with consensual mechanisms in criminal proceedings analyzed comparatively. It addresses the common systemic foundations of negotiated justice and most up to date supranational trends in its development. Through examples of Poland, Germany and Brazil it also presents its universal phenomenon outside the common law systems.

Autorentext

Szymon Pawelec is an associate professor and head of the Department of International Criminal Procedure at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. He has authored over seventy publications dealing with criminal law, criminal procedure and commercial law. He is also an attorney with rich professional experience in these areas of law.

Inhalt

Foreword - Theoretical and methodological foundations for consensual models based on Polish example - Study on general characteristics of consensual procedures and reform trends - Consensual proposals - recommendations of the European Court of Human Rights - Development of consensual mechanisms in the Polish criminal proceedings - Institution of conviction without conducting a trial under Article 335 of the Code of Criminal Procedure - Voluntary submission to a punishment - Small crown witness in Polish criminal law - Consensual proceedings - Brazilian perspective - Consensual proceedings - German perspective