ISBN:
9781108475112
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 196 Seiten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
Cambridge studies in law and society
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mugler, Johanna, 1979 - Measuring justice
DDC:
345.68/05042
Keywords:
National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa
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Public prosecutors
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Prosecution Statistics
Abstract:
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
Note:
Based on author's thesis (doctoral - Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, 2015) issued under title: By their own account : an ethnography of (quantitative) accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa
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