Maybell Romero on Profit-Driven Prosecution

In this episode, Maybell Romero, Assistant Professor at the Northern Illinois University College of Law, discusses her article "Profit-Driven Prosecution and the Competitive Bidding Process," which was published in the Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology. Romero begins by observing that many municipalities have privatized criminal prosecution, contracting out the job of prosecutor to the lowest bidder. She explains how this creates incentives to generate revenue, rather than do justice. She also reflects on how it might discourage women and minorities from pursuing jobs as prosecutors. And she makes suggestions about institutional changes that would address this problem. Romero is on Twitter at @MaybellRomero.This episode was hosted by Luce Nguyen, a student at Oberlin College and the co-founder of the Oberlin Policy Research Institute, an undergraduate public policy organization based at Oberlin College. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.