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050	0	0	_aKTL1615 _b.M84 2019
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100	1		_aMugler, Johanna, _d1979- _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aMeasuring justice : _bquantitative accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa / _cJohanna Mugler.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2019.
300			_a1 online resource (xiii, 196 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge studies in law and society
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Jun 2019).
505	0		_aFrom 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.
520			_aMeasuring 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.
610	2	0	_aNational Prosecuting Authority of South Africa.
650		0	_aPublic prosecutors _zSouth Africa.
650		0	_aProsecution _zSouth Africa _xStatistics.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108475112
830		0	_aCambridge studies in law and society.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108566254
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