Name: Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System
ISBN: 978-3-319-25802-7

Editors:

Annie Hondeghem⁰,
Xavier Rousseaux¹,
Fréderic Schoenaers²

Annie Hondeghem
1. KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, Leuven, Belgium
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Xavier Rousseaux
1. Centre d'histoire du droit et de la justice (CHDJ), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Fréderic Schoenaers
1. Centre de Recherche et d’Interventions Sociologiques (CRIS), University of Liège, Liège, Belgium
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Offers a multidisciplinary approach to the modernization of the judicial system
Includes contributions from multiple disciplines including public administration, sociology, history and criminology Brings together a group of top scholars on the much debated issue of the modernization of the judicial system
Is one of the few publications focusing on management in the judicial system?
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice (IUSGENT, volume 50)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

Front Matter

Pages i-xviii

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Justice Reforms in Continental Europe
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 1-1
  
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2. From Octopus to the Reorganisation of the Judicial Landscape in Belgium
  
  Annie Hondeghem, Bruno Broucker
  
  Pages 3-18
3. Indicators or Incentives? Some Thoughts on the Use of the Penal Response Rate for Measuring the Activity of Public Prosecutors’ Offices in France (1999–2010)
  
  Christian Mouhanna, Frédéric Vesentini
  
  Pages 19-35
4. Different Methods, Same Results as French Criminal Courts Try to Meet Contradictory Policy Demands
  
  Virginie Gautron
  
  Pages 37-50
5. The Position of the Public Prosecution Service in the New Swiss Criminal Justice Chain
  
  Daniel Kettiger, Andreas Lienhard
  
  Pages 51-64
6. Do Statistics Reinforce Administrative Centralisation? The Contradictory Influence of Quantified Indicators on French National Police
  
  Anne-Cécile Douillet, Jacques de Maillard, Mathieu Zagrodzki
  
  Pages 65-77
7. From Justice Archipelago to Security and Justice Chain: Strategy-Organisation Configurations in the Dutch Criminal Justice System
  
  Stavros Zouridis
  
  Pages 79-93
Trust and Cooperation in the Criminal Justice Chain
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 95-95
  
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2. The Concepts of Trust and Distrust in the Belgian Criminal Justice Chain
  
  Jolien Vanschoenwinkel, Annie Hondeghem
  
  Pages 97-113
3. Intra- and Interorganisational Trust in a Judicial Context: An Exploratory Case Study
  
  Marloes Callens, Geert Bouckaert, Stephan Parmentier
  
  Pages 115-130
4. Managing the ‘Overall Integrated Security Policy’ at the Local Level: An Analysis of Inter-institutional Dialogue
  
  Alice Croquet, Frédéric Schoenaers
  
  Pages 131-144
5. Visible and Invisible Sentencing
  
  Neil Hutton
  
  Pages 145-158
6. Making Sense or/of Decisions? Collective Action in Early Release Process
  
  Joséphine Bastard, Christophe Dubois
  
  Pages 159-172
Human Capital in Historical Perspective: Belgian Magistrates
1. Front Matter
  
  Pages 173-173
  
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2. Prosopography, Crisis and Modernisation of Justice—“Belgian Magistrates”: An Introduction
  
  Xavier Rousseaux
  
  Pages 175-180
3. Prosopography in the Digital Age: Current Situation, Prospects and Perspectives in the Light of the Forthcoming “Belgian Magistrates” Application
  
  Aurore François, Françoise Muller
  
  Pages 181-193
4. Conflicts, Tensions and Solidarity Within the Judicial District: A Socio-Professional Study of the Judiciary of the “Belgian” Departments Under the French Directory (1795–1799)
  
  Emmanuel Berger
  
  Pages 195-210
5. Magistrates of Congo (1885–1960): Prosopography and Biography as Combined Tools for the Study of the Colonial Judicial Body
  
  Laurence Montel, Enika Ngongo, Bérengère Piret, Pascaline le Polain de Waroux
  
  Pages 211-232
6. Belgian Magistrates and German Occupiers: A Diachronic Comparison (1914–1918/1940–1944)
  
  Mélanie Bost, Kirsten Peters
  
  Pages 233-260

About this book

This book focuses on one part of the judicial system: the criminal justice chain. This involves all the activities and actors dealing with policing, prosecution, judgment, and sanctioning of crimes. In the last decades, reforms have been implemented in several European countries. In Belgium, for example, there was the so-called Octopus reform in 1998. The police was restructured, leading to an integration of the police forces on a national and local level. New steering instruments were introduced, such as regional security plans. With regard to the sanctioning of crimes, a new institution was installed, called the sentence implementation court. This book evaluates these reforms and discusses the current reform on the reorganization of the judicial landscape. In addition, it examines the relation between trust and distrust and the application to the judicial system. It discusses the human capital aspect of the system, by means of a study on the prosopography of the Belgian magistrates that analyses the Magistracy as socio-professional group, and focuses on situations of system building, transformations under constraint (occupations), and transfers (colonial experience). Lastly, the book presents a comparative study of Belgium and France regarding the new techniques and instruments that are needed to accelerate the judicial response time and to ensure that the judicial system delivers its services on time.

Keywords

Accountabilities in judicial organisations
Belgian Magistrates under German occupations
Conflicts, tensions and solidarities
Cooperation between police and prosecution officers
Criminal justice chain and the judicial system
Human capital
Judicial response time
Justifications based on trust
Juvenile prosecution office and juvenile courts
Local Security Governance
Magistrates in Colonial Environment
Prosopography in Digital Age
Prosopography, Crisis, and Modernization of Justice
Reforms in the judicial system
Reorganization of the judicial landscape

Editors and Affiliations

KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, Leuven, Belgium

Annie Hondeghem
Centre d'histoire du droit et de la justice (CHDJ), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Xavier Rousseaux
Centre de Recherche et d’Interventions Sociologiques (CRIS), University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

Fréderic Schoenaers

Bibliographic Information

Book Title: Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System
Book Subtitle: New Insights on Trust, Cooperation and Human Capital
Editors: Annie Hondeghem, Xavier Rousseaux, Fréderic Schoenaers
Series Title: Ius Gentium: Comparative Perspectives on Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25802-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-25800-3Published: 06 January 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27483-6Published: 06 January 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-25802-7Published: 22 December 2015
Series ISSN: 1534-6781
Series E-ISSN: 2214-9902
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 275
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, History, general, Public Administration, Human Resource Management

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

Front Matter

Justice Reforms in Continental Europe

Front Matter

Trust and Cooperation in the Criminal Justice Chain

Front Matter

Human Capital in Historical Perspective: Belgian Magistrates

Front Matter

About this book

Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

KU Leuven Public Governance Institute, Leuven, Belgium

Centre d'histoire du droit et de la justice (CHDJ), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Centre de Recherche et d’Interventions Sociologiques (CRIS), University of Liège, Liège, Belgium

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