Promoting Innovation in
Prosecution
Prosecutors
Guide to Intake and Screening , Joan E. Jacoby, Peter S.
Gilchrist, III, and Edward C. Ratledge. Jefferson Institute for
Justice Studies: Washington. DC. 1998 (Note:
This document is available electronically on our publications
page.)
Prosecutors
Guide to Case Management , Joan E. Jacoby, Peter S.
Gilchrist, III, and Edward C. Ratledge. Jefferson Institute for
Justice Studies: Washington. DC. 1998 (Note:
This document is available electronically on our publications
page.)
Prosecutors
Guide to Management Information , Joan E. Jacoby, Peter S.
Gilchrist, III, and Edward C. Ratledge. Jefferson Institute for Justice
Studies: Washington, DC. 1999 (Note: This
document is available electronically on our publications
page.)
Prosecutors
Guide to Police-Prosecutor Relations , Joan E. Jacoby,
Peter S. Gilchrist, III, and Edward C. Ratledge. Jefferson Institute
for Justice Studies: Washington, DC. 1999 (Note:
This document is available electronically on our publications
page.)
Other Criminal Justice Documents
Evaluations
Prosecuting Complex Drug Cases: The Challenge for
Local Prosecutors , Joan E. Jacoby, Heike P. Gramckow, and
Edward C. Ratledge. National Institute of Justice: Washington, DC.
1993.
Expedited Drug Case Management Programs: Issues
for Program Development , Joan E. Jacoby, Edward C. Ratledge,
and Heike P. Gramckow. Research in Brief. National Institute of
Justice: Washington, DC. October 1992
Asset Forfeiture Programs: Impact, Issues and
Implications . Joan E. Jacoby, Heike P. Gramckow, and Edward C.
Ratledge. National Institute of Justice: Washington, DC. 1992.
Evaluation of Illinois Violent Offender
Prosecution Programs Executive Summary , Joan E. Jacoby,
Edward C. Ratledge, and Peter S. Gilchrist, III. Jefferson Institute
for Justice Studies: Washington, DC. 1998.
The Impact of Community Policing on the Criminal
Justice System , Joan E. Jacoby, Heike P. Gramckow, and Edward
C. Ratledge. Jefferson Institute for Justice Studies: Washington, DC.
1995.
Management and Resource Analysis
Management Audit of the Kalamazoo County
Prosecuting Attorneys Office , Joan E. Jacoby, with Peter S.
Gilchrist, III, Joseph A. Trotter, Jr., Caroline S. Cooper, Norman W.
Frink, John Goergen, and James L. Shornkwiler. School of Public
Affairs, The American University: Washington, DC. 1994.
Marin County, California: Management Appraisal of
the Criminal Justice System Executive Summary , Joan E.
Jacoby, Edward C. Ratledge, Ronald J. Taylor, Marshall J. Hartman,
Heike P. Gramckow, and Noddie Barrion. Jefferson Institute for Justice
Studies: Washington, DC. 1993.
Policy
"The Charging Policies of
Prosecutors," Joan E. Jacoby in The Prosecuto r, edited
by William F. McDonald. Sage Criminal Justice System Annals. Vol. II.
Sage Publications: London and Beverly Hills.
1979. pp. 75-97.
"Evaluating the Prosecutor
from a Policy Perspective," Joan E. Jacoby in Theory and
Research in Criminal Justice: Current Perspective s, Chapter 4,
edited by John A. Conley. Anderson Publishing,
Criminal Justice Studies. 1979. pp. 57-72.
The Prosecutor's Charging
Decision: A Policy Perspective ,
Joan E. Jacoby. National Institute Law Enforcement and Criminal
Justice, LEAA. United States Government Printing Office: Washington,
DC. January, 1986.
"Measuring the Transmission
of Prosecutorial Policy: A Case Study in Brooklyn," Edward C.
Ratledge and Sheldon Greenberg. Presented to the American Society of
Criminology 1979 Meeting in Philadelphia, PA. Bureau of Social Science
Research: Washington, DC. 1979
"Case Evaluation: Quantifying
Prosecutorial Policy," Joan E
Jacoby. Judicature, Vol 58, No. 10. p. 486. May 1975.
Expert Systems
and Information Systems
Handbook on Artificial
Intelligence and Expert Systems in Law Enforcement (1989) .
Joan E. Jacoby and Edward C. Ratledge.
Greenwood Press: Westport, Connecticut. 1989
Cost Studies
Case Weighting Systems for
Prosecutors: Guidelines and Procedures .
Joan E. Jacoby. U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of
Justice: Washington, DC. 1987 .
Case Weighting Systems: A Handbook for Budget
Preparation ,
Joan E. Jacoby. National
Legal Aid and Defender Association: Washington, DC. 1985.
"Productivity in Prosecution and Public
Defender Agencies,"
Joan E. Jacoby. Presented to the American
Society of Criminology 35th Annual Conference in Denver, CO.
Jefferson Institute for Justice Studies: Washington, DC. 1983.
"A Feasibility Study for a Cost Analysis
of Plea Bargaining,"
Joan E. Jacoby and Edward C. Ratledge.
Submitted for the Project on Plea Bargaining in the United States.
Georgetown University, Institute of
Criminal Law and Procedure: Washington, DC. 1976.
Some Costs of Continuances: A
Multi-Jurisdictional Study ,
Joan E.
Jacoby, Charles R. Link, Edward C. Ratledge. Jefferson Institute for
Justice Studies: Washington, DC. 1986.
Performance Measurement
"Measuring the Productivity of the Public
Defender,"
Joan E. Jacoby in The Defense Counsel , edited by
William F. McDonald. Sage Criminal Justice System Annals, Vol. 18. Sage
Publications: Beverly Hills, London. 1983. pp.
273-302.
Weighted Dispositions: Added Quality To Performance
Management ,
Joan E. Jacoby. Jefferson Institute
for Justice Studies: Washington, DC. 1982.
Basic Issues in Prosecution and Public Defender
Performance ,
Joan E. Jacoby. U.S. Department of
Justice, National Institute of Justice: Washington, DC. 1982.
Policy and Prosecution ,
Joan E. Jacoby, Leonard R. Mellon, and Walter F. Smith. U.S. Department of
Justice, National Institute of Justice: Washington, DC. 1982.
Drugs
"Prosecuting Drug Offenders",
Joan E. Jacoby
and Heike P. Gramckow in Drugs and the Criminal Justice System. Evaluating
Public Policy Initiative s. Doris L. MacKenzie and Craig D. Uchida (eds.).
Sage Publications: Newbury Park, CA. 1994.
Prosecutorial Decisionmaking
"Expedited Drug Case Management Programs: Some
Lessons in Case Management Reform,"
Joan E. Jacoby in The Justice System
Journal, Vol. 17 No. 1, 1994, pp. 19-40 .
Prosecutorial Decisionmaking: A National Study ,
Joan E. Jacoby, Leonard R. Mellon, Edward C. Ratledge, and Stanley Turner),
U.S. Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice: Washington, DC.
1982.
The Standard Case Set: A Tool for Criminal Justice
Decisionmakers ,
Joan E. Jacoby, Leonard R.
Mellon, Stanley Turner, and Edward C. Ratledge, U. S. Department of Justice,
National Institute of Justice: Washington, DC. 1982.
Pretrial Screening in Perspective ,
Joan E. Jacoby. National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice,
LEAA: Washington, DC. January 1976.
Issues in Pretrial Screening ,
Joan E. Jacoby and Neil Bomberg. Bureau of Social Science Research:
Washington, DC. 1976.
Resource Analysis
"Productivity and Resource Allocation in
Prosecution and Public Defender Agencies,"
Joan E. Jacoby and Edward C. Ratledge. (submitted for publication).
"Attorney Effort: A Powerful Descriptor of
Operations and Policy,"
Joan E. Jacoby. Paper presented to American
Society of Public Administration. March 1984.
An Analysis of the North Carolina District Attorneys
Resources ,
Joan E. Jacoby, Edward C. Ratledge,
Ronald Taylor, and Noddie Barrion. Jefferson Institute for Justice Studies:
Washington, DC. 1996.
North Carolina Clerks of Superior Court Resources and
Procedures 1998 ,
Joan E. Jacoby and Edward
C. Ratledge. Jefferson Institute for Justice Studies: Washington, DC. 1999.
Staffing and Funding For the Massachusetts District
Attorneys: A Conceptual Approach ,
Joan E.
Jacoby. Jefferson Institute for Justice Studies: Washington, DC. 1994.
Training
Guidebook for the Establishment of Career Criminal
Programs .
Joan E. Jacoby, Kai Martensen, Andrew Sonner, Stephen Goldsmith, Joel Phillips, Peter Giordano, and Fred Crawford.
U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance: Washington, DC. 1989
(to be published).
Career Criminal and Repeat Offender Programs: Guidebook
for Program Development ,
Joan E. Jacoby, Fred
Crawford, Peter Giordano, Stephen Goldsmith, Kai Martensen, Joel Phillips, and
Andrew Sonner). Jefferson Institute for Justice Studies:
Washington, DC. 1989.
General
The American Prosecutor: A Search for Identit y,
Lexington, Massachusetts: Lexington Books, 1980.
"The Deterrent Power of Prosecution."
Joan E.
Jacoby in Chapter 6, Preventing Crime: Sage Criminal Justice System Annual s,
edited by James A. Cramer, XX, August 1978, Sage
Publications, pp. 137-161.
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citations:
"Pushing the Envelope - Leadership in
Prosecution",
The Justice System Journal , Vol. 17 No. 3. 1995. pp.
291-307.
"Book Review" of The Uses of Discretion edited
by Keith Hawkins,
The Criminologist , Vol. 19 No. 3. May/June 1994. page 18.
"Book Review" of Consumerist Criminolog y,
by Leslie Wilkins. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology . Nov. 1986.
"The Prosecutor Constrained by
His Environment -- A
New Look at Discretionary Justice in the United States," Joan E. Jacoby,
Leonard Mellon, and Marion Brewer. Northwestern University School of Law,
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, Vol . 72, No. 4. Winter 1981.