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Measuring Justice

Quantitative Accountability and the National Prosecuting Authority in South Africa

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvJohanna Mugler

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-18
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Studies in Law and Society
Antal sidor218
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108465885

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Johanna Mugler joined the Department for Social Anthropology at the Universität Bern, Switzerland, as a Lecturer and Researcher in 2012. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and was a Ph.D. Candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle. Her primary research goals are directed at understanding how people and institutions are accomplishing social phenomena like accountability, justice, equality and redistribution. In her postdoctoral research 'Sharing Global Corporate Profits' she explores the fiscal accountabilities of global taxpayers and the negotiation and making of international tax law within the 'G20 OECD Base Erosion and Profit Shifting' initiative.

1. From apartheid administrators to lawyers of the people: a history of accountability inside the South African Prosecution Authority (1948–2018); 2. Ethnographic research in a multi-local organisation: access, challenges and methods; 3. Stats talk' and alternative expressions of accountability: NPA lower court prosecutors at work; 4. No fear of numbers: reactivity and the political economy of NPA performance measurement; 5. At the top of the NPA: managing with numbers and numerical reflexivity; 6. Lies, damned lies and statistics: making sense of misleading or imperfect NPA conviction rates.