皇家检察署的职业身份、合法性和管理主义

IF 1 4区 社会学 Q2 LAW
Legal Studies Pub Date : 2023-01-10 DOI:10.1017/lst.2022.47
Laurène Soubise
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摘要

摘要世界各地的检察官肩负着执行刑法的任务,享有广泛的自由裁量权。现有关于检察官自由裁量权和问责的文献倾向于讨论对检察官自由酌处权的监管,或分析检察官运作的程序环境的影响。本文着重探讨了职业文化作为影响检察决定的一个重要因素。它特别关注检察官职业身份的一个研究不足的方面:合法性,特别是自我合法性,即检察官相信自己在个别案件中做出决定的合法性。本文介绍了直接观察和采访的研究结果,这些研究结果揭示了皇家检察署(CPS)工作人员由于同事和管理人员不断监督他们的决定而丧失自我合法性的感觉。矛盾的是,这种无处不在的管理主义破坏了CPS自成立以来一直努力发展的合法性(以及相关的透明度)。
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Professional identity, legitimacy and managerialism at the Crown Prosecution Service
Abstract Tasked with enforcing criminal law, public prosecutors worldwide enjoy broad discretion. Existing literature on prosecutorial discretion and accountability tends to discuss the regulation of prosecutorial discretion or analyse the influence of the procedural environment in which public prosecutors operate. This paper focuses on occupational culture as an important factor affecting prosecutorial decisions. It draws particular attention to an understudied aspect of prosecutors’ professional identity: legitimacy and, specifically, self-legitimacy, ie the belief public prosecutors have in their own legitimacy to make decisions in individual cases. The paper presents research findings from direct observations and interviews which reveal a sense of a loss of self-legitimacy amongst Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) staff due to the constant monitoring of their decisions by colleagues and managers. This all-pervasive managerialism, paradoxically, undermines the very legitimacy (and, relatedly, transparency) which the CPS has had to work so hard to develop since its inception.
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