Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

Cambridge Studies in Law and Society

Mugler, Johanna (Universitat Bern, Switzerland)

Cambridge University Press

05/2019

230

Dura

Inglês

9781108475112

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Explores how South African court and managerial prosecutors engage with performance statistics, indicators and rankings at work; whether and how they affect operations, decision-making, the allocation of resources and their accountability, with the findings being of interest to those concerned with justice, accountability and state bureaucracy.
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.
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