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Book SynopsisExplores how South African court and managerial prosecutors engage with performance statistics, indicators and rankings at work; whether and how they affect operations, decision-making, the allocation of resources and their accountability, with the findings being of interest to those concerned with justice, accountability and state bureaucracy.
Table of Contents1. 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.
