Measuring justice: quantitative accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa
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 accountabil...
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| Tipo de documento: | Print Libro |
| Lenguaje: | Inglés |
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Cambridge New York, NY
Cambridge University Press
2019
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| En: | Año: 2019 |
| Edición: | First published |
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| Parallel Edition: | Electrónico
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| Sumario: | 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 |
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| Notas: | 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 Enthält Bibliographische Angaben |
| Descripción Física: | xiii, 196 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781108475112 |