PROJECT JUSTICE AND MANAGEMENT

Through the project Justice and Management, we intend to offer a detailed view of the changes taking place in judicial and police organizations, through three different but complementary points of view : external stakeholders, managers and field actors.

Justice and Management (JAM): the stakes for the transition to a modernized judicial (2014-2018)

Source of funding :  belspo

Funding Program : Belgian Research Action through Interdisciplinary Networks (BRAIN-be)

Three main work packages considering the three points of view of the transformation process are planned:

  1. The first work package focuses on the stakeholders, in particular the service users and those sometimes representing them (i.e. their counsel), or supporting them (i.e. various organizations, trade unions, houses of justice). Legitimacy through accessibility and, more generally, the legitimacy of justice itself will be the focus (Antwerp University);
  2. The second work package focuses on management, i.e. the heads of both the police and the judiciary, who play the largest role in implementing the managerial logic (University of Liège);
  3. The third work package focuses on the actors who, because they work in the shadow of more prominent actors within the justice system and the police, often elude the attention of both decision makers and researchers. These are the secretaries and the clerk’s office staff, whose contribution to the change process is important (National Institute of Forensic Science and Criminology).

FINAL REPORT