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9 - Performance Evaluation in the Context of Criminal Justice Reform

A Critical Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2021

Björn Ahl
Affiliation:
University of Cologne
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This chapter analyses the operation of criminal procedure in contemporary China from the perspectives of institutional and individual interests. First, the chapter zooms in on the various performance indicators that affect the everyday operation of China’s criminal justice system, with a focus on the distorted use of such indicators. Second, it argues that the pathological use of performance indicators must be understood in the context of the power relations and interactions amongst the main players within the criminal justice system. Incentivising and controlling the individual actors can be thought of as managing an enterprise on the basis of individuals’ interest in pursuing promotion and better remuneration and agencies’ interest in obtaining power, prestige and legitimacy. Ingenious individuals and agencies soon develop techniques for disregarding, bypassing or manipulating performance-related factors to obtain the results they want. The downside of such an interest-driven management approach in the criminal justice arena is that it conflicts with the underlying mission of criminal justice agencies: to serve the interests of justice. Finally, the chapter analyses the current criminal justice practices, identifying the ideological and institutional factors that can explain the distortion and limits of reform.

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Chinese Courts and Criminal Procedure
Post-2013 Reforms
, pp. 235 - 257
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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