TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mugler,Johanna
TI  - Measuring justice: quantitative accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa 
T2  - Cambridge studies in law and society
SN  - 9781108566254 (ebook)
AV  - KTL1615 .M84 2019
U1  - 345.68/05042 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - National Prosecuting Authority of South Africa
KW  - Public prosecutors
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Prosecution
KW  - Statistics
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jun 2019); 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
N2  - 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.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566254
ER  -