1st Edition

Efficiency and Bureaucratisation of Criminal Justice Global Trends

Edited By Ed Johnston, Anna Pivaty Copyright 2023
178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

178 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

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.