PROVINCIAL ENGLISH PROSECUTOR'S VIEW OF ORGANIZED CRIME (FROM UNAFEI REPORT FOR 1992 AND RESOURSE MATERIAL SERIES NO. 43, 1993, P 156-173, TAKASHI WATANABE, ED., SEE NCJ-146381)

• NCJ Number: 146387
• Author(s): A R Taylor
• Date Published: 1993
• Length: 18 pages
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; United Nations Asia and Far East Institute for the Prevention of Crime and Treatment of Offenders; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Type: Survey
• Language: English
• Country: Japan

Annotation

This article is about organized crime in England and Wales.

Abstract

Although the functions of the policeman and the prosecutor in England and Wales are separate and distinct, the roles are beginning to merge in response to the problems posed by serious crime (which is usually, but not always, the same thing as organized crime). The author does not believe that organized crime requires special legislation, procedures and prosecutors; the laws and procedures of a country should be adequate to cover the whole range of crime. While policemen, prosecutors and legislators must do their utmost to detect and prosecute organized criminals to conviction, rules and procedures should not be changed for them alone. The long-term health of a criminal justice system is harmed less by organized criminals going free than by even a few persons being wrongly convicted. The paper contains a summary of the role of the prosecutor in England and Wales, prosecution units set up to deal with serious and organized crime, statutory provisions designed to assist the fight against organized and serious crime, practical problems faced by the prosecutor dealing with organized crime, and examples of the prosecution of cases involving organized crime.