ABSTRACT
The Prosecutor's managerial role introduces a new political role of the judiciary in Italy. The judiciary interacts with both the political system and the media system. It plays a role as an agent of reform of civil and political life in Italy, encroaching on the legislature's political power and assuming an unprecedented role regarding public morality. To understand judicial activity "in action", the people need to consider both the relationships within the Public Prosecutor's Office and the links between that office and external actors. The growing autonomy of the Chief Prosecutor interacts with the availability of human, material and technology resources. Judicial action straddles the executive and the judiciary, because prosecutors not only play a crime repression function but also a judicial function as guarantors of legality. Every new legal, political or social input, and new juridical and social actors in the local juridical field, can influence a change in the working strategies of judicial action.
