Public procurator

City People's Procuratorate office in Longhai City, Fujian, China (中华人民共和国福建省龙海市人民检察院)

A public procurator (Chinese: 公诉人;[1] 检察官[2]) is an officer of a state charged with both the investigation and prosecution of crime. The office is a feature of a civil law inquisitorial rather than common law adversarial system. Countries such as Japan, China, Russia, Indonesia and Lithuania adopt the procuratorial system.

The office of a procurator is called a procuracy or procuratorate.[3] The terms are from Latin and originate with the procurators of the Roman Empire.

  1. ^ English-Chinese Dictionary of Humanities and Social Sciences. China Renmin University Press. 2001. pp. 795–. ISBN 978-7-300-03733-2.
  2. ^ Legal English. China Legal Publishing House. 2006. pp. 307–. ISBN 978-7-80226-465-6.
  3. ^ Aida Alayarian (8 May 2018). Children of Refugees: Torture, Human Rights, and Psychological Consequences. Routledge. pp. 71–. ISBN 978-0-429-91188-0.