Measuring Justice: Quantitative Accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa

ISBN-13: 9781108475112 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 216 str.

Johanna Mugler

Opis

Explores how performance measurement systems shape South African court and managerial prosecutors' understanding of accountability and their legal work practices.

Spis treści

1. From apartheid administrators to lawyers of the people: a history of accountability inside the South African Prosecution Authority (1948–2018); 2. Ethnographic research in a multi-local organisation: access, challenges and methods; 3. Stats talk' and alternative expressions of accountability: NPA lower court prosecutors at work; 4. No fear of numbers: reactivity and the political economy of NPA performance measurement; 5. At the top of the NPA: managing with numbers and numerical reflexivity; 6. Lies, damned lies and statistics: making sense of misleading or imperfect NPA conviction rates.