Modernisation of the Criminal Justice Chain and the Judicial System

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

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.                                    

• 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

• 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

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