Autonomy and discretionary power of the Public Prosecutor's Office in Brazil

This article deals with the autonomy, discretionary power, and wide range of attributions allotted to the Public Prosecutor's Office in Brazil by the 1988 Constitution. One of the objectives is to analyze whether this combination is not alien to the democratic principle that state institutions,...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Fábio Kerche, Thiago Gomide Nasser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 2008-01-01
Series:Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais
Subjects:
Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-52582008000100002&lng=en&tlng=en