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The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system?
The prosecution service is a key role player in the criminal justice system. Its effectiveness and efficiency directly reflect on the performance and service of the whole criminal justice system. The South African prosecution service in its current shape is relatively young. Constitutional and legis...
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| author | Keuthen, Jens Christian |
| author2 | Scharf, Wilfried |
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| description | The prosecution service is a key role player in the criminal justice system. Its effectiveness and efficiency directly reflect on the performance and service of the whole criminal justice system. The South African prosecution service in its current shape is relatively young. Constitutional and legislative provisions supplemented by various policy papers have established a framework that in principle allows for an effective and efficient function of the prosecution service in the South African criminal justice system. However, the actual performance of the prosecution service is insufficient, as this thesis suggests. Reasons for the current underperformance can be identified and are strongly linked to the transitional development of the South African prosecution service. In order to increase the performance of the prosecution service and the service of the criminal justice system this thesis explores the challenges facing the prosecution service and that have to be addressed immediately. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/42052 The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system? Keuthen, Jens Christian Scharf, Wilfried Steyn, Esther South African Criminal Justice The prosecution service is a key role player in the criminal justice system. Its effectiveness and efficiency directly reflect on the performance and service of the whole criminal justice system. The South African prosecution service in its current shape is relatively young. Constitutional and legislative provisions supplemented by various policy papers have established a framework that in principle allows for an effective and efficient function of the prosecution service in the South African criminal justice system. However, the actual performance of the prosecution service is insufficient, as this thesis suggests. Reasons for the current underperformance can be identified and are strongly linked to the transitional development of the South African prosecution service. In order to increase the performance of the prosecution service and the service of the criminal justice system this thesis explores the challenges facing the prosecution service and that have to be addressed immediately. 2025-10-28T09:31:17Z 2025-10-28T09:31:17Z 2007 2025-10-28T09:27:55Z Thesis / Dissertation Masters LLM http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42052 en eng application/pdf Centre for Socio-Legal Research Faculty of Law University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | South African Criminal Justice Keuthen, Jens Christian The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system? |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system? |
| title_full | The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system? |
| title_fullStr | The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system? |
| title_full_unstemmed | The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system? |
| title_short | The South African prosecution service: linchpin of the South African criminal justice system? |
| title_sort | south african prosecution service linchpin of the south african criminal justice system |
| topic | South African Criminal Justice |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/42052 |
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