Measuring justice : quantitative accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa / Johanna Mugler.
2019
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Title
Measuring justice : quantitative accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa / Johanna Mugler.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Description
1 online resource (xiii, 196 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Cambridge studies in law and society.
Formatted Contents Note
From apartheid administrators to lawyers of the people : a history of accountability inside the South African Prosecution Authority (1948-2018)
Ethnographic research in a multi-local organisation : access, challenges and methods
"Stats talk" and alternative expressions of accountability : NPA lower court prosecutors at work
No fear of numbers : reactivity and the political economy of NPA performance measurement
At the top of the NPA : managing with numbers and numerical reflexivity
Lies, damned lies and statistics : making sense of misleading or imperfect NPAconviction rates
Concluding remarks.
Ethnographic research in a multi-local organisation : access, challenges and methods
"Stats talk" and alternative expressions of accountability : NPA lower court prosecutors at work
No fear of numbers : reactivity and the political economy of NPA performance measurement
At the top of the NPA : managing with numbers and numerical reflexivity
Lies, damned lies and statistics : making sense of misleading or imperfect NPAconviction rates
Concluding remarks.
Summary
Measuring Justice explores the ways in which South African court and managerial prosecutors deal with the quantification of social phenomena - such as justice, professional work or accountability - and address the radical simplifications of their inherent complexities, misrepresentations and editing as a consequence. While various studies show the concern of professionals about the damaging effects these quantitative forms of accountability have on the creativity, freedom and collaborative nature of expert systems, Mugler shows that the reactions and attitudes of these legal professionals differ substantially. Through careful scrutiny of the everyday work of prosecutors and how they reflect on the relationship between accountability, quantification and law, this book argues that actors who work daily with quantitative accountability measures develop a numerical reflexivity about the process.
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Cambridge Books Online.
Language
English
ISBN
9781108566254 (ebook)
9781108475112 (hardback)
9781108465885 (paperback)
9781108475112 (hardback)
9781108465885 (paperback)
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