Measuring justice quantitative accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2019
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in law and society
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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