Prosecution association: Difference between revisions

A '''prosecution association''' is an organization of citizens, typically in the same community, who pay dues to cover one another's costs of [[privately prosecuting]] offenders should a crime be committed against them. These were particularly popular in places and times when citizens were allowed to prosecute offenders directly rather than relying on [[public prosecutorsprosecutor]]s. The prosecution associations sometimes also provided [[crime insurance]] to their members, and would go after offenders in an effort to obtain restitution.