Organisational prosecutions

The central theme of this book is the activity of the multifarious agencies, local and central government departments, private companies and organisations, which act as prosecutors in the branch of the criminal justice system which deals with 95 per cent of all offences: the magistrates' court.

Based on a year's extensive study of all of the organisation prosecutions brought before three magistrates' courts in different regions, the text analyses a number of important issues, including the different approaches taken by the different organisations, their conviction rates, and the type of sentencing used for different sorts of cases.