Extension
For Prosecutors
The Power and the Person
You speak for the people. This is where you decide what that means.
For the prosecutor who is good at the work and is examining, honestly, whether who they are in it matches who they want to be.
The Name It First Experience
Prosecutors hold extraordinary discretionary power — to charge, to plea, to recommend, to decide what justice looks like in a specific case for a specific human being. Most of that power is exercised without a documented personal framework for what guides it. This extension builds that framework. Through structured reflection and decision frameworks, you examine your prosecutorial values, your non-negotiables, and what a professional identity built on accountability and clarity looks like. You produce The Prosecutors Identity Charter: a document that is yours, not the office's.
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Sample questions
- What does justice actually mean to you — not the legal standard, but what you believe?
- Where does the power of your office feel most aligned with who you want to be — and where does it feel most complicated?
- What does a prosecutorial identity built on accountability and clarity actually look like for you?
Research basis
Angela Davis's research on prosecutorial power documents the extraordinary and largely unexamined discretion that prosecutors hold, and its disproportionate impact on communities of color — a research base that makes prosecutorial identity examination an issue of both personal and systemic importance. Stephanos Bibas's work on prosecutorial accountability identifies the absence of structured professional identity frameworks as a primary driver of inconsistent and sometimes unjust charging decisions. Figley's compassion fatigue research applies: prosecutors carry secondary trauma from crime victims and crime itself. Maslach and Leiter's burnout framework applies: high-volume prosecution offices reproduce all six burnout dimensions. Professional Identity Formation frameworks (Cruess, Cruess, Steinert) apply to the prosecutorial professional identity formation that happens almost entirely through case exposure rather than explicit examination. Lawrence Krieger and Kennon Sheldon's legal wellbeing research documents the systematic erosion of the values that most prosecutors entered the profession to serve.
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