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Efficiency and Bureaucratisation of Criminal Justice: Global Trends

Efficiency and Bureaucratisation of Criminal Justice: Global Trends

Author: Ed Johnston; Anna Pivaty
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032075853
Published In: March 2023
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
Countri(es) stated herein are used as reference only

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This book tackles the growing issues concerning the managerialism and bureacratisation of criminal justice systems across a number of jurisdictions. Here, managerialism means the move towards more standardised, bureaucratic and efficiency-driven systems, influenced by a desire to ensure predictability, control risks and, ultimately, economic savings via a more efficient process. The volume explores the phenomenon of managerialism in selected national criminal legal systems, covering all stages of criminal case processing from arrest to the imposition of sanction. The selected countries represent diverse socio-economic, political, cultural and legal traditions including common law, civil law, mixed common and civil law, and post-Soviet tradition. The book engages with a variety of relevant theoretical concepts, such as fairness, rationality, efficiency and legitimacy. The authors critically examine whether and to what extent the trend towards managerialism is indeed discernible, and what are its likely effects in the given national criminal legal systems. The book will be of interest to students, researchers and practitioners working in the areas of comparative criminal justice and procedure.

Acknowledgements

List of Contributors

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation

List of Abbreviations

Foreword – Professor Jackie Hodgson

Introduction – Anna Pivaty and Ed Johnston

Chapter 1 – Judging the Offender: French Criminal Justice Culture and the Challenges of McDonaldization – Laurene Soubise

Chapter 2 - New Public Management in the Dutch criminal justice chain: the effects of stratification and automation in out-of-court proceedings – Joep Lindeman and Nina Holvast

Chapter 3 - Introducing abstaining from prosecution and plea bargaining in Greece: reforms towards the quest for efficiency - Chara Chioni-Chotouman

Chapter 4 - Bureaucratising Criminal Convictions in China – Enshen Li

Chapter 5 - ‘Through the back door’: defence perspectives on the rise of managerialism at the expense of adversarial justice – Ed Johnston and Tom Smith

Chapter 6 - New Public Management and the role of Dutch trial judge: a critical appraisal of the possible impact - Anna Pivaty and Marieke Dubelaar

Chapter 7 - Domestic Abuse Cases and Packer’s Conundrum: Managing Risk – Emma Forbes

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