Evaluating the Judicial Activity: A Proposal of Indicators and Analyses of Criminal Burden

Carlo Cusatelli () and Massimiliano Giacalone
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Carlo Cusatelli: University of Bari “Aldo Moro”

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2018, vol. 138, issue 2, No 15, 725-746

Abstract: Abstract This work arises from the need to compare criminality in various territorial circumscriptions. Because crimes does not occur uniformly in time, space and number of committed offenses, in this paper two indicators are proposed, weighted for average edictal condemnation, for the necessity to understand criminal burden, focusing on spatial point of view: this is the main difference compared to existing literature. In this paper both civil proceedings and criminal proceedings have been analyzed. Some results related to the average length of civil proceedings and some comparison of criminal indexes in temporal sense are given. We then discussed the crime rates proposed in the literature and, in particular, the correct crime index. Both indexes allow the crime to be compared in time. In the last part of the paper we introduce new indicators that allow the comparison of crime in different geographic areas, also corrected for taking into account the numerical population influence. These indicators, which are the methodological contribution of this paper, has been applied on real data, as reported in tables.

Keywords: Criminal burden; Territorial indicators; Crime severity indicators; Judicial statistics; Average length of proceedings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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