TY  - BOOK
AU  - Miller,Banks P.
AU  - Curry,Brett W.
TI  - U.S. attorneys, political control, and career ambition
T2  - Oxford scholarship online
SN  - 9780190928278
AV  - KF8793 .M56 2018
U1  - 345.7301262 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Public prosecutors
KW  - United States
KW  - Law
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law
KW  - thema
KW  - Officials and employees
N1  - Previously issued in print: 2018; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized
N2  - United States Attorneys (USAs), the chief federal prosecutors in each judicial district, are key in determining how the federal government uses coercive force against its citizens. How much control do national political actors exert over the prosecutorial decisions of USAs? In this text, the authors investigate this question using a unique data set of federal criminal prosecutions between 1986 and 2015 that captures both decisions by USAs to file cases as well as the sentences that result
UR  - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190928247.001.0001
ER  -