Efficiency and Bureaucratisation of Criminal Justice

Global Trends
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-032-07591-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 178 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 284 g

Reihe: Routledge Contemporary Issues in Criminal Justice and Procedure

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.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnston, Ed

Pivaty, Anna

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsvergleichung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kriminalsoziologie
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Strafverfahrens- und -prozessrecht, Strafverteidigung und Opferschutz
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Table of Cases

Table of Legislation

List of Abbreviations

Foreword

The move towards efficiency and managerialism in criminal justice: A global phenomenon

ANNA PIVATY AND ED JOHNSTON

1 Judging the offender: French criminal justice culture and the challenges of McDonaldization

LAURÈNE SOUBISE

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

3 Introducing abstaining from prosecution and plea bargaining in Greece: Reforms towards the quest for efficiency

CHARA CHIONI-CHOTOUMAN

4 Bureaucratising criminal convictions in China

ENSHEN LI

5 ‘Through the back door’: Defence perspectives on the rise of managerialism at the expense of adversarial justice

ED JOHNSTON & TOM SMITH

6 New Public Management and the role of the Dutch trial judge: a critical appraisal of the possible impact

ANNA PIVATY AND MARIEKE DUBELAAR

7 Domestic Abuse Cases and Packer’s Conundrum: Managing Risk

EMMA FORBES

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Ed Johnston is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Procedure at the University of Northampton, UK.

Anna Pivaty is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.