RT Article
T1 Rethinking prosecutorial discretion: towards a moral cartography of prosecutors
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 61
IS 6
SP 1486
OP 1502
A1 Tuesta, Diego
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1779865554
AB This article examines the justifications that a group of prosecutors employs when coordinating human trafficking investigations in the Amazon. The study is based on interviews with officials who work in Madre de Dios, Peru, a region affected by small-scale gold mining, whose demand for labour has increased the incidence of human trafficking. I draw from Boltanski and Thévenot’s polity model to elucidate three moral principles regularly endorsed by prosecutors in the course of criminal investigations: efficiency, civic and domestic values. Together these comprise a moral cartography of prosecution. This study from the Global South contributes to a more holistic—and pragmatic—understanding of prosecutors’ charging decisions, complementing research approaching this topic from the perspective of bounded rationality.
K1 Global  South
K1 Human  trafficking
K1 Justification
K1 Madre  de  Dios
K1 Moral  cartography
K1 Prosecutorial coordination
DO 10.1093/bjc/azab040